Born Waipukurau 2/2/1930    

Educated at St Matthus Collegiate School and Hastings High School

MB ChB (NZ) 1954, MRANZCP 1965, DPM (Melb) 1965, FRANZCP 1976, MCCM (NZ) 1980, FAFPHM (RACP) 1994

HS / HP, Auckland Hospital 1955 - 1956
Medical Registrar (Chest Medicine), Greenlane Hospital 1957 - 1958
Foundation Psychiatric Registrar, Auckland Hospital 1959 - 1960

Postgraduate training in Melbourne 1861 - 1965
Clinical Assistant, Royal Childrens Hospital
Psychiatrist, Child and Family Clinic, Department of Mental Hygiene, South Yarra, Victoria

Medical Superintendent, then Clinical Director, Braemar Hospital, Nelson 1965 - 1997
Faculty Member, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois USA 1970 - 1971
Chief Medical Officer, Braemar Hospital 1990 - 1997
Visiting Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Wellington Hospital 1980 - 1989

Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Waikato DHB 1998 - present
Consultant Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Hawkes Bay DHB, 2002 - present