Alexandra (Ali) graduated with a veterinary degree at the University of Queensland in 2018. During her degree, her passion for equine medicine afforded her multiple research opportunities, one of which resulted in 2018 Equine Veterinarian Australia Young Members Group Abstract Prize and research presentations at national conferences. Following graduation, Ali completed her equine internship at Ballarat Veterinary Practice Equine Clinic. She then spent time in ambulatory first opinion equine practice in Victoria’s Yarra Valley before returning to Queensland to undertake UQ’s Doctor of Veterinary Clinical Science in large animal internal medicine.