Sally is a Senior Hospital Scientist at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology/Westmead Institute for Medical Research at Westmead Hospital and an honorary Principal Research Fellow (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Sydney. Her main research interests and areas of expertise are in the genetics of antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements and plasmids in Gram-negative bacteria. She has a total >80 publications with >2000 total citations and has been/is a CI on grants totalling >$2.5 million AUD in the last 5 years. The translational potential of Sally's work since moving to Westmead Hospital in 2005 was recognised by admission to Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 2011 as a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Science.

After completing her D. Phil at Oxford University Sally has become one of the leading researchers in the area of the genetics of antibiotic resistance, and has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy since 2009 and of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy since 2016