Sally graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science from the University of Melbourne in 2000 and became a Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Veterinary Behaviour in 2013. An active member of the Australian Veterinary Behaviour Interest Group since 2014, Sally is President for the Veterinary Behaviour chapter of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists from 2020-2022. Sally is a Resident in behavioural medicine for the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists and the American College of Veterinary Behaviourists. She is also a lecturer in small animal behaviour, a subject offered in the Bachelor of Veterinary Nursing course at Melbourne Polytechnic. She has her own practice in Northeast Victoria as well as consulting for the US-based Veterinary Information Network (VIN). Sally loves that behavioural medicine encourages a compassionate approach to the needs of individual animals by drawing on evidence from various fields of scientific study.