Elizabeth graduated from the Murdoch University with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery in 1999. She worked initially in equine/mixed animal practice in Australia then mainly small animal practice throughout the UK, before completing her Masters in Control of Infectious disease animals from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK in 2005. Since then, Elizabeth has worked as an emergency and critical care veterinarian (UK), did a residency in wildlife/anatomic pathology (both Cornell University, and Bronx Zoo, U.S.A) and as a consultant veterinarian & pathologist (International Livestock Research institute, Nairobi, Kenya). In 2010 she obtained the Diplomat of American College of Veterinary Pathologists.