Areas of Expertise
- Brain Tumours
- Cerebral Aneurysms and Haemorrhagic Stroke
- Brachial Plexus Avulsion Pain
- Cancer Pain
- Chronic Neuropathic Pain
- Head Trauma – brain haemorrhage and skull fractures
- Musculoligamentous Spine Injuries
- Neck Injuries – whiplash and other injuries
- Neuralgia
- Pain after Brain Injury
- Peripheral neuropathies – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Ulnar Neuropathy
- Peripheral Nervous System Pain
- Post Thoracotomy and Post Mastectomy pain
- Post Traumatic Neuropathic Pain
- Spinal Injuries – ruptured discs, sciatica, stenosis, trauma, low back pain and scoliosis.
- Traumatic Injuries of Peripheral Nerves
- Tumours – tumours of the spine, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
- Malformations of the Nervous System
Current Positions
- Director of Multidisciplinary Pain Management Programme, The Wesley Hospital, Auchenflower
- Past President, Medicolegal Section, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2010 – present
- Chairman, Pain Section, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2001 – present
- Member, Neurology and Neurosurgical Assessment Tribunal, Q-COMP, 2001 – present
- Member, Court of Honour, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1999 – present
Previous Positions
- Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba
- Visiting Neurosurgeon
- Mater Children’s, Adult and Private Hospitals, South Brisbane
- Greenslopes Private Hospital, Greenslopes
- Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba
- President, Australian Pain Society
- President, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
- Vice President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Dean, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
- Treasurer, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
- Senior visiting Pain Specialist, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba
- Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Queensland
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – Neurosurgery
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
- Fellow of Faculty of Pain Management, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
- Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
- American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (A.B.I.M.E.), AMA5, June 2014
- Queensland Worker’s Compensation Scheme Guidelines for Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (GEPI) training, Core, Spine and Nervous System, 2014
- Comcare: Guide to the Assessment of the Degree of Permanent Impairment, Second Edition, 2006
- Australian Centenary Medal, 2003
- Officer of the Order of Australia, 2004