Born 19 Feb 1954
Educated at Waitaki Boys' High School HS / HP, Timaru Hospital 1977 - 1978 SHO, Department of Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, London 1979 Surgical Registrar, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex 1980 - 1981 Surgical Registrar, Hammersmith Hospital, London 1981 - 1982 Surgical Research Fellow, VA Wadsworth Medical Center / UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 1982 - 1983 Senior Surgical Registrar, Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, Middlesex 1983 - 1985 Senior Surgical Registrar, Royal Postgraduate Medical School / Hammersmith Hospital 1985 - 1986 Senior Lecturer, Wellington School of Medicine, and Consultant Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1986 - 1991 Director, The Wakefield Clinic for Gastrointestinal Diseases, Wellington 1991 - 1995 Director and full-time upper GI Surgeon, private surgical clinic, Wellington, specialising in the management of liver cancer and severe obesity, 1995 - present Leading researcher, Wakefield Gastroenterology Research Institute, 1995 - present photograph courtesy Richard Stubbs |