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From vet degree to vice‐president of R&D
Author(s) -
LightfootDunn Ruth
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.g7479
Subject(s) - vice president , milestone , management , degree (music) , political science , medicine , history , economics , physics , archaeology , acoustics
Ruth Lightfoot‐Dunn vividly remembers her first day at vet school, as it was ‘a huge milestone’ in her ambition to be a practising equine vet. Had someone told her at the time that her veterinary degree would lead to the role of vice‐president of R&D in the largest healthcare biotechnology company in the world, she would have insisted this would never happen. Here, she explains how it did