I trained in Leicester, Peterborough, Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester and Melbourne and was appointed as a consultant vascular surgeon in November 1993.

I have a large NHS practice based at the LGI and take part in the major trauma centre. I was appointed as an honorary professor of vascular surgery at the University of Leeds in 2004 and manage a large academic research group, focused on abdominal aortic aneurysms, based within the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine.

I have extensive experience of the management of arterial and venous disease.

I work closely with colleagues in interventional radiology, and offer minimally invasive approaches to arterial and venous disease.

I have an established medico-legal practice and accept instructions for reports on complications of arterial and venous surgery and venous thromboembolism.

I am an advisory member of the BHF, Chairman of the European Board of Vascular Surgery and the FRCS Vascular Examination Board and the lead for Academic Foundation and INSPIRE at the University of Leeds.

I am President Elect of the Union Européenne des Medécins Spécialistes (UEMS) Section and Board of Vascular Surgery and a Past-President of the Vascular Society of GB and Ireland (2012-13).