Chiara is a board certified specialist veterinary pathologist (Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathology) and Professor in Veterinary Pathology at the School of Veterinary Science (SVS) of the University of Queensland (UQ). She has a specific research interest is small animal oncology, comparative pathology, in particular canine prostate cancer, and veterinary oncoepidemiology. She is Chair of the canine prostate cancer subgroup at the Oncology Pathology Working Group (OPWG), co-coordinator of the Global Initiative for Veterinary Cancer Surveillance (GIVCS) committee, leader of the first Australian veterinary cancer registry (ACARcinom) and team leader of the comparative oncology theme of the Queensland Alliance of One Health Science. She is past President of the Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology and, within the UQ SVS, she has been postgraduate coursework coordinator, HDR coordinator and Director of Research. She has published more than 120 papers on international journals, 3 book chapters and numerous abstracts in proceedings of national and international conferences.