Aviation Medicine
I joined the Royal Air Force in 1983, after completing my medical training in Auckland, New Zealand. I acquired my knowledge and experience in Aviation Medicine serving at the RAF Aviation Medicine Training Centre at North Luffenham, the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough in Hampshire where I was awarded a PhD in physiology from Imperial College.
This was followed by a posting with the Armstrong Laboratory at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas working as an exchange officer for the USAF. During this time I was appointed as a consultant in Aviation Medicine to the Royal Air Force. I returned to the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine in 1993 as the Head of the Biomechanics Division.