General Practitioner since 1981. Post graduate qualifications include Fellowships of both Australian and New Zealand Royal Colleges of General Practice. Medical Director of a primary health care based clinical trials unit since 2008. Second unit established in 2010. Experienced Principal Investigator with a wide range of phase 2 – 4 clinical trials. Formerly Associate Professor of Family and Community Health at SQU, Oman.
Established Southern Clinical Trials Group Ltd (SCTG) with Julia Mathieson in 2011. SCTG oversees 5 Clinical Trial sites with a total combined database of more than 50,000 patients. SCTG is part of a large Australian network called Pacific Clinical Research Network.