Career of Liz Shaw before hired for Prometheus expedition

That's funny. I was wondering why an anthropolgist would be an expert on cutting edge medical pods and know who many were in existence, and also that is is she who instructs Dr. Forde how much stimulus to give to the[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_coeruleus] Locus Coeruleus[/url] when shocking the Space Jockey head in the lab

good observations, she's obviously got some kind of medical background or passion.