Rob Graduated with Honours from Durham School of Podiatric Medicine in 1998.

In the early years he was working in Private practice and later swapped to the NHS with a locus post in North Norfolk PCT.

In late 2002 he moved Doha within the State of Qatar where he has spent the last 19 years developing Podiatry within the country setting up the first Sports Podiatry service which has now evolved into a core component of one of the regions leading Orthopaedic sports hospital Aspetar. He has also been instrumental in the development and construction of “The Diabetes Hospital” and has developed a plug and play model for other countries to utilise in developing protocols and procedures for opening centre for managing diabetic complications with a primary focus on foot complications.

He has also played a key role in the training and development of the physicians and nurses and had an active role in developing the wound care sub speciality nurses, particularly with a focus of the management of complications within the foot in diabetes.

In 2014 he was awarded fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

In 2019 he was one of the first to be awarded with a Masters in Limb preservation from Ulster university where he focussed on the management of diabetes and the chronic complications, which he has further developed as part of his role as a PhD researcher with the University.

In the last 10 years he has received about $6 million in research funding and has international collaborations, working alongside David Armstrong, Larry Lavery and Bijan Najafi, predominantly working on technologies associated with wound healing. As result of this work he has published about 40 peer reviewed papers and currently working on a systematic review looking at the relationship between epicardial fat thickness in the incidence of atrial fibrillation.

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