Jo is currently Professor of Veterinary Cardiology at the University of Liverpool Small Animal Teaching Hospital, where she has worked since 2004, with promotion to personal chair in 2016. She is head of the cardiology service, which includes 1 other senior cardiologist, 3 cardiology residents working towards the ECVIM-CA Cardiology programme Diploma, for which Jo is programme director, a cardiology intern and 2 veterinary nurses. Jo is currently chair of the cardiology specialty and is proud to serve on the ECVIM-CA board. Within the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Liverpool, Jo is subject lead for the small animal management of disease (clinical) course in 3rd and 4th year as well as leading the cardiorespiratory medicine teaching for undergraduate veterinary students. She is clinical rotation lead for cardiology teaching for 4th and final year students during their cardiology week. Her research interests include canine and feline cardiomyopathies, echocardiography, cardiac genetics and cardiac biomarkers. For her dilated cardiomyopathy research, she currently is working with the Great Dane community in the UK, with research funding from the Kennel Club Charitable Trust and the Great Dane Breed Council. Jo graduated with Honours from the University of Glasgow in 1986. She has worked in general mixed practice in Hereford and Canterbury and small animal first opinion and referral practice in Glasgow. Her academic career included posts as a house physician and a residency at the University of Glasgow, where she was first inspired to specialise in veterinary cardiology although this residency also included neurology in which she was awarded a Master of Veterinary Medicine degree. She then had a temporary lectureship at the University of Edinburgh (1994-5), where she later did her PhD and a post-doc in studies of dilated cardiomyopathy in Newfoundand dogs (1996 – 2002). She briefly returned to Glasgow as a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology in 2002, before settling at the University of Liverpool. She holds both the RCVS (1992) and ECVIM-CA (2003) Diplomas in cardiology, and is an EBVS and RCVS recognised Specialist in cardiology. She was awarded the BSAVA Blaine award in 2008, for veterinary cardiology and teaching.