Gina qualified in Northern Ireland in 2008 and found a passion for referral nursing in teaching hospitals at Melbourne University. On returning to the UK she developed an interest in medicine and completed her DipAVN (small animal) before joining the Royal Veterinary College’s Queen Mother Hospital for Animals as the Senior Medicine Nurse in 2011. She recently won best clinical abstract presented by a nurse at BSAVA 2015 and is currently working towards becoming a VTS in small animal medicine.