Jill is a graduate of the University of Sydney. She completed an internship at the University of Sydney, spent 18 months in full time private practice in Sydney then completed a residency in small animal medicine at the University of Guelph, Canada. She returned to Australia and completed a PhD at The University of Sydney. She was a senior tutor and clinician in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the University of Sydney from 1987 and from 1990 was a senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology. From 1990-2000 she also worked in general and specialist veterinary practice and was a consultant for a veterinary clinical pathology lab. Jill moved to the UK with her family in April 2001. She is currently Professor of General Practice at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). She is actively involved in undergraduate teaching at the RVC and in CPD around the world in the areas of small animal medicine, clinical problem solving and clinical pharmacology. Jill is the senior editor of Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology (Elsevier) and Clinical Reasoning in Small Animal Practice (Wiley-Blackwell). To keep in touch with the realities of private general practice she consults regularly at the RVC’s first opinion practice, the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital.