As a trainee he studied HIV & chest medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School, USA, and modern vascular surgical techniques at St.Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He completed a Bachelor Degree in Biochemistry assessing novel cardiovascular risk markers and was awarded a Wellcome Scholarship. He later completed a Doctorate in Medicine at the Royal Marsden Hospital studying the effects of radioiodine dosimetry treatment in patients affected by thyroid cancer. His work has been presented at numerous international meetings and was shortlisted for the European Marie Curie prize in 2007.