He trained as a GP initially then moved to orthopaedic surgery with junior posts in Oxford, Norwich and Cambridge. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University College Hospital and The Middlesex Hospital in 1992. He was a founding fellow and council member of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa. For this he received the OBE in 2007. He has been a Hunterian professor and is an elected council member of the RCS England. He is senior author in a new book of vivas for the FRCS(Orth). He was involved in setting up an orthopaedic hospital in Niger which opened in October 2010. Register of Interests: