He was resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1910 and honorary surgeon to the outpatients department from 1913 to 1917.
[3] He served in the RAAMC with the First AIF during the Great War, then continued his studies in London, and was admitted as a Master of Surgery and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
He was a clinical lecturer in surgery from 1927 and honorary consulting surgeon at the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.
He was a noted teacher of surgery and largely responsible for the formation of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and served as its president.
[4] A portrait by W. B. McInnes (an Archibald Prize entry in 1936)[5] hangs in the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.