

BVSc (Melbourne 1988) PhD (CQU 2001). She spent 7 years working in mixed practice in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia and the United Kingdom. In 1996, She worked at the Cocos Islands Quarantine Station with more than 600 Peruvian alpacas during their importation to Australia. She then spent a year at Murdoch University doing a Residency in Food Animal Medicine and passed examinations for membership to the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in the Ruminant Nutrition Chapter. Between 1999 and 2001 she studied the control of ovarian follicular growth in alpacas as part of a Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation-funded Doctor of Philosophy at Central Queensland University.