I graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999 and spent a year as a pre-registration house officer in Birmingham, Walsall and Stoke-on-Trent. Having spent the Millennium night on-call at Selly Oak Hospital, I applied to work for a year in Mackay in 2000 and have been in Australia ever since!
Since 2000 I have worked exclusively in Queensland with positions in general medicine, intensive care, and anaesthesia. I began training as a specialist anaesthetist in 2005 and undertook rotations through Rockhampton, Royal Brisbane and Women’s and The Prince Charles Hospitals. As part of my training I undertook a 6 month registrar rotation with Careflight in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine in 2006 and continued to undertake aeromedical work until 2013, crewing rescue helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in Gold Cold, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Townsville and Toowoomba. In 2007 I was awarded the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
I completed my specialist training in 2010 with the award of Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and currently work at Northside Anaesthesia and at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital as a Staff Anaesthetist where I have special interests in anaesthesia for trauma and emergency surgery and major incident management. In my private practice I have particular interests in anaesthesia for orthopaedic and maxillofacial surgery.