Liz completed her vet degree at Murdoch University in 1999 after working for a couple of years in the horse racing industry and completing a Bachelor of Science at Flinders University. Her holiday time during her university years was spent breaking in bulls to lead on a Charolais and Simmental stud and helping with thoroughbred yearling preparation for the sales.
She worked for 2 years in a small animal and equine practice in rural NSW before heading to the UK to do a mix of locum and permanent vet practice jobs for the next 6 years. Throughout this period, she worked on numerous international projects including assisting with TB research in Uganda at the domestic-wildlife interface, neutering clinics in the Peruvian Amazon and vaccination clinics in the informal settlements of Nairobi. She did a Masters in Control of Infectious Disease in Animals at the Royal Veterinary College in London and passed with distinction also winning the project prize for her project on Echinococcus granulosus in domestic dogs and lion in Uganda. She then moved to the US to do a joint wildlife/anatomic pathology residency at Cornell University in Upstate New York, relocating to the Bronx zoo, NYC for the final year of her residency with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Liz passed her American College of Veterinary Pathology board exams in 2010. From the US she moved to Kenya for a year where she worked on several different projects both as a veterinarian and pathologist.
Liz relocated to Australia in 2011 and worked as a Melbourne based pathologist since then. She enjoys all aspects of Wildlife Pathology and loves the challenges of small animal neoplasia and hepatic and gastrointestinal pathology. When not at work Liz is either on the tennis court or in the garden. She also loves kelpies.