Ronette Gehring graduated as a veterinarian in 1996 from the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort, and was awarded the MMedVet specialist degree in Veterinary Pharmacology from the University of Pretoria in 2000. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology in 2006 and joined the faculty of the Kansas State, College of Veterinary Medicine the same year. During her tenure at Kansas State University, Ronette served as the regional director (Mid-West) of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank. She is Past-President of the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and served as Secretary-Treasurer of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. Ronette joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University in October 2017, where she teaches veterinary pharmacology and leads the research group in veterinary and comparative pharmacology.