Attended Stellenbosch University Medical School in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and qualified with MBChB in 1983.  Following with 2 years of conscription military service and then 18 months of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Durban as a registrar before switching to radiology at the University of Natal obtaining the degree FFRad(D).

My wife, daughter and I emigrated to New Zealand in 1993 spending the first 3 years in Timaru before moving to Whangarei in 1996.

Favourite Saying: "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra.