[2] After his retirement from competition, Gerrard gained a medical degree (MB ChB) at the University of Otago in 1977 and has specialised in the field of sports medicine, mainly based in Dunedin at the University of Otago.

Over the years he has strongly participated in teaching and research in sports medicine, lipids and diabetes.

[4] In the 2007 Queen’s Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to sports medicine.

[10] He was one of the inaugural NZ Fellows of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians.

[11] He is currently working to develop a test to detect use of synthetic Erythropoietin, a drug frequently used in Blood doping.