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Lydia graduated from veterinary school at the University of Cambridge in 2009 and joined VPDS as the Resident in Veterinary Pathology in September 2011. She applied for her residency from aboard a warship, the USS Cleveland, where she was spending six months treating the animals of the South Pacific with the United States Navy. Prior to this she worked in small animal practice in London and spent two months vasectomising vervet monkeys in South Africa. Her interests include forensic pathology and wildlife population health and her current research projects involve characterising fractures of abused dogs and familial arrthymogenic cardiomyopathy in chimpanzees.