Susana graduated from the University of Porto, Portugal in 2010, and after one year working in a teaching hospital in Portugal followed by a Junior Clinical Training Scholarship in Small Animal Studies at the University of Cambridge, she spent 5 years as a general practice small animal vet before returning to Cambridge in 2018, first as a Junior Neurologist, followed by a Residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery. Susana is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Neurology and works as an Associate Teaching Professor and Clinical Neurologist at the QVSH,  University of Cambridge. She combines teaching and clinical work with research into the association between the reduction of brain oxygenation and development of neurodegenerative diseases in brachycephalic dogs, the main focus of her ongoing PhD at the University of Cambridge, and the genetics of spongiform leucoencephalomyelopathy in Border Terriers.