Completed his training at the University of Cape Town as a Specialist physician (2004) and Sub-Specialist Geriatrician (2006). He moved up to Johannesburg in 2007 to founder and head the Division of Geriatric Medicine which is based jointly at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre and Helen Joseph Hospital. He was promoted to Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in 2017.

He is primarily a clinician, and head of the largest specialist geriatric teaching and training service in Sub-Saharan Africa. His practice and research interests include: cognitive impairment and brain failure syndromes, adverse drug reactions, orthogeriatrics, stroke, acute geriatric medicine, and the ethical challenges of the end of life.