A 2009 veterinary graduate from University College Dublin, Ireland and since then has worked in the United Arab Emirates, Ireland and the United Kingdom. A general practitioner with an interest in small animal internal medicine, obtaining a PG cert from Harper Adams University in 2014. Having always been an educator at heart, in 2023 jumped at the opportunity to join SRUC's school of veterinary medicine in Aberdeen. This will be Scotland's third vet school, the first to be established in over 150 years!