I am a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital. I have recently completed nearly four years as Clinical Director for the Surgical Paediatrics Directorate, incorporating a number of children's surgical specialities.

After qualifying in medicine at Queen’s University Belfast in 1998, I was awarded a training position in surgery, and subsequently Paediatric surgery.  I completed a doctorate degree at Queen’s University Belfast in 2005, and then entered Paediatric Surgical training at The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia, receiving my paediatric surgery fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in 2008.

I gained a Consultant Paediatric surgeon position at Cambridge University Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust in 2010, initially as a locum. In 2011, I returned to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, as Paediatric Transplant Fellow and Deputy Chief Resident Medical Officer.  I returned to the United Kingdom in 2012 and re-joined the Cambridge University Hospital’s Paediatric Surgical team as a locum consultant, before being appointed as a substantive consultant in March 2013.

Since my initial appointment as a consultant surgeon in 2010 I have specialised in both paediatric gastrointestinal surgery and paediatric oncology surgery.

I have a keen interest in quality improvement and clinical leadership, and in 2013 I was successful in becoming a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow, and subsequently obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Leadership from Ashridge Business School (Hult International). I have continued my interest in clinical leadership development, in the role as co-clinical programme director for the Chief Resident’s Programme, a clinical leadership development programme for doctors in training, provided by the Cambridge University Health Partners and The Judge Business School.  I have also recently completed an executive coaching course at Ashridge Executive Education, and am keen incorporate coaching into clinical leadership development.