[5] His clinical research topics have included fracture healing, musculoskeletal infection and the surgery of degenerate  lumbar and cervical discs.

[6] He served as vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,[1] and chairman of DISCS, the charity funding research into spinal conditions.

Subsequently, he was awarded the degree of MS from University of London with a thesis on bone scanning, completed while he was research fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, US.

[10] In 1979 he was appointed Senior Lecturer and honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London.

[citation needed] The International Skeletal Society's 25th anniversary book lists him as a member.

[12] He was on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma[13] and was Chairman of the charity Discovering Innovative Solutions for Conditions of the Spine (DISCS).