Background

He was born in Canada to Scottish parents and brought up and educated in Glasgow, Scotland.

Training

He completed both his undergraduate training (in 1990) and postgraduate training (CCST in Gastroenterology and General Medicine) in 2002. He undertook a 2 year period of dedicated research in hepatology and was awarded an MD in 2002. Thereafter he undertook a fellowship in liver transplantation in London, Ontario before being appointed as Consultant Hepatologist to The Liver Unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. In 2008 he moved to London to take up a position as Consultant Hepatologist.

Clinical interests and areas of expertise

His clinical and academic interests are in biliary endoscopy, autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases and liver transplantation.

As clinical director for the liver transplant, hepatobiliary and pancreatic service and hepatology services, he has particular interests in improving clinical outcomes for patients with liver disease and developing networked specialist clinical services.

Research interests

He has a number of active research interests but particularly in primary sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cholangiitis and aoutimmune hepatitis in addition to an active research interest in liver transplantation and biliary endoscopy.