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Mary graduated from the University of Sydney and worked in small animal practice in Sydney before completing a rotating internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at Washington State and Purdue universities. She has spent 15 years in clinical academic roles at the University of Queensland and completed her PhD at Murdoch University. Her research focuses on small animal clinical urinary tract medicine, seeking to improve urinary tract health in dogs and cats, while reducing unnecessary antimicrobial use associated with treatment of positive urine cultures. Additionally, she is currently investigating the microbiome of canine and feline urinary tracts, as well as exploring new therapeutic interventions for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). Mary has a keen interest in understanding chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cats and is actively recruiting healthy cats for urinary tract microbiome analysis. She collaborates with notable colleagues in her field and oversees various postgraduate research supervision projects.
Research for treating feline leukemia virus infection in Australian cats.
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