He undertook a PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) before completing his ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH). He has recently returned from a fellowship under Prof Robert MacLaren in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford (UK). He is involved in a number of ongoing research projects, including retinal gene therapy and the use of an electronic retinal implant for partial restoration of vision in advanced retinitis pigmentosa. He is now based at the RVEEH and the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) in Melbourne, Australia.