Kim Henneman

Kimberly Henneman, DVM, DACVSMR (K9, EQ), FAAVA, DABT, CVA, CVC

Dr. Henneman received her BS Magna cum laude in 1981 from Utah State and her DVM in 1986

from the Purdue School of Veterinary. She holds certifications in veterinary acupuncture (IVAS 1990 - certificate #172), veterinary chiropractic (AVCA 1992 – certificate #21) and Chinese Herbal Medicine (IVAS 2000). She became the 12th Fellow of the American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture in 2008, and, in 2014, became the first (and still only) veterinarian to achieve Board-certified Diplomate status in the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation in both Canine & Equine species.

Dr. Henneman’s practice is 50% performance equine and 50% companion animal and ranges from the Rocky Mountains to Alaska to Hawaii to New England. It involves the use of integrative therapies, nutrition and thermal imaging in sports medicine, rehabilitation and chronic disease for dogs, cats, horses, zoo animals and the odd bucking bull.

She works on equine athletes of all disciplines from all around the world and has accompanied the USEF’s Endurance Team several times to World and Pan-Am Championships in Dubai, Spain and the US.

Dr. Henneman was one of the first veterinarians in the United States to recognize the importance of focused veterinary health care for performance and working dogs, providing care for local police, detection and SAR dogs, which morphed into providing the first Working Dog Sports Medicine clinic caring for dogs at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Since then, her working and performance work has expanded into caring for agility, conformation, obedience, sheep-herding, Barn Hunt, nosework, Urban and Wildland SAR, police/patrol/ detection, sled and avalanche rescue dogs. Dr. Henneman is an 11-year trail veteran of the 1000- mile Iditarod Sled-Dog Race across Alaska, and recently worked 300+ miles above the Arctic Circle as a trail veterinarian for the Norwegian Finnmarksløpet, Europe’s longest sled dog race.

Dr. Henneman has been the head veterinarian for 18 years for the Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Championships (one of the largest International-lift sheep dog competitions in North America), as well as working on-site for national Protection Sport and Agility championships. She currently pens a quarterly column in National Ski Patrol magazine discussing avalanche rescue dog topics.

Dr. Henneman is a popular international and national speaker teaching at several veterinary schools, national, state and regional VMA meetings, and at conferences in China, Canada, the Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Western Europe and South Africa. She has contributed both equine and canine chapters to several textbooks, including Canine Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation, eds. Chris Zink and Jan van Dyke (2013, 2018, 2024), Veterinary Clinics of NAEquine 2015, 2022) and Essential Facts of Equine Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, ed. João Paolo Marques (2024), as well as many magazines. She lives in Park City, Utah with her engineer/pilot husband, Pat, and a wad of horses, dogs and cats. She enjoys travel, keeping her French and Portuguese functional, photography and 3-Day Eventing on her rescued,

off-the-track QH mare, Feather.