Dr Penny Watson is Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine at the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, Cambridge, UK. She graduated from Cambridge in 1989 and spent 4 years in very mixed practice before returning to Cambridge to undertake a Residency in Small Animal Medicine. She has been there ever since and now helps run a very busy referral clinic, teaching students and medicine residents. She is now an RCVS and European Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Medicine. She holds the RCVS Certificate in Veterinary Radiology and Diploma in Small Animal Medicine and is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM). She became a Fellow of the RCVS in 2016. Penny is ECVIM Past President and a former chair of the ECVIM Internal Medicine Diploma examination committee and former Honorary Secretary of BSAVA.Penny Watson’s research focuses on liver and pancreas disease in dogs and cats, particularly chronic disease and fibrosis.