Academic emergency physician, past Editor in Chief of Emergency Medicine Australasia, produced three textbooks in emergency medicine. Also strong advocate for healthy lifestyle and sustainable wellbeing, leading residential retreats for people with multiple sclerosis at the Gawler Foundation in Victoria, and with the MS Society of Auckland at the Mana Retreat in New Zealand. Author of the multiple sclerosis website www.takingcontrolofmultiplesclerosis.org, designed to give people with MS the tools they need to stay well.