My specialist areas are acute brain injury (mostly traumatic brain injury) and its very early management. I passionately believe that early intervention is key to preventing secondary injury, for both cranial and spinal injuries. My main research uses hypoxia as a model of brain injury and to improve our understanding of basic physiological principals that we subsequently use in the acute and intensive care setting. 

I underwent self imposed prolonged training as an anaesthetist and a GP before my neurosurgical career, and I still like to maintain a broad medical interest.

I have worked extensively overseas (India, Nepal, South Africa, as a GP in Australia, Researcher for NASA and as an expedition doctor on Arctic and Everest expeditions). I wrote The Medics Guide to Work and Electives Around the World and manage www.medicstravel.org I also specialise in IT (having developed a number of web based referral systems).