BVSc5

I’m the 5th year coordinator and also teach professionalism and communication plus a smidge of pathology in various years of the BVSc. After graduation, I spent a few years in small animal practice before returning to Massey to complete a pathology residency and PhD. I had the intention of becoming a diagnostic pathologist, but loved the teaching parts of my role so much I just never left. I live with my teenage son and renal-defective golden retriever in Palmerston North, and in my spare time love playing and watching sport as well as indulging in some lowbrow TV. A long time ago I also used to be a lawyer, but I promise I’m fully rehabilitated now.

BVSc4

I am a pathology lecturer (with some toxicology and Spine courses on the side), and the BVSc4 coordinator. One of the best parts of my job is getting to know students, helping them to succeed, and using my slightly obsessive organisational skills to help make 4th year slightly less stressful. Outside of work, I enjoy baking and starting creative projects like paint-by-numbers and embroidery (although finishing them is sometimes a different story). I live with 3 truck and cricket-mad males (my 5 and 8-year-old sons and husband), as well as cats, chickens, and pet sheep. I have a talent for writing cheesy rhyming poems, which isn’t helpful in getting scientific research published, but did win me $200 in a writing contest at high school.