College of Health and Medicine

What is your favourite childhood memory?

Playing backyard cricket during the long summer nights in southern New Zealand

What is your favourite winter meal?

Roast lamb, vegetables and gravy

What do you do to relax?

Spending time with family and friends, watching TV, reading a book, going for a run,

What is your greatest dislike?

People who are dishonest

What do you like most about your work?

That euphoric feeling when an experiment has worked and you are the only person in the world that has that specific piece of knowledge

One wish for the future?

Greater funding for medical research so we can spend less time writing grants and more time performing research

Tell us one thing people might not know about you.

I have played competitive cricket for 25 years and am still playing.