He completed his specialist training at Box Hill and The Canberra Hospitals, before undertaking a PhD at the University of Melbourne examining a novel mouse model of colitis with a focus on the role of T-cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). After his PhD, Steven travelled to New York and worked at the Mount Sinai Hospital in 2004/2005, as the Present-Levinson Clinical IBD Fellow and the de Rothschild Research Fellow. He returned to Melbourne to take up a position at St Vincent’s, where he now works within the IBD Unit and is Director of IBD Clinical Trials. He also works in private practice, with a special focus on younger patients with IBD, but also covers all aspects of luminal Gastroenterology, including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures.