After graduating from Cambridge in 1989, Dr Penny Watson spent 4 years in farm, equine and small animal practice before returning to Cambridge to undertake a small animal medicine residency.

She spent 29 years at the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, becoming an RCVS and ECVIM Diplomate and recognised specialist in Small Animal Medicine.

She became a Fellow of the RCVS in 2016.
She recently retired from clinical practice but continues with research, book editing and lecturing. Penny is ECVIM Past President and a former chair of the ECVIM Internal Medicine Diploma examination committee and former Honorary Secretary of BSAVA. Penny’s research focuses on liver and pancreas disease in dogs and cats, particularly chronic disease and fibrosis and she has published widely in these areas. Recent research has focused on copper storage disease in a variety of breeds and feline chronic cholangitis. She was a member of the group which produced the ACVIM Consensus Statement on Canine Chronic hepatitis. This group is  now working to increase awareness of copper storage disease in dogs and to improve regulation of the amount of copper in dog foods.