After graduating from the University of London in 1996, he undertook specialist orthopaedic training, authored several orthopaedic publications, and spent one year on a highly esteemed research fellowship at John Hopkins University in the USA. He then completed 12 months as a fellow specialising in knee surgery in the UK before being appointed as an Orthopaedic Consultant locum at Addenbrooke's Hospital in 2009, where he also gained experience in hip replacement surgery.