Although she currently resides in Guelph, she enjoys dropping in to the Gorweir Holsteins home farm. Pat joined the Upper Grand Vets team in 2016, after retiring from a 35-year career shared between OMAFRA and the University of Guelph where she worked as a post mortem room technician and bacteriology technologist. For the past 15 years, Pat has been actively involved in coaching and rowing at the Guelph Rowing Club. Other interests include curling, church and other community activities.