Jeff is an Academic Surgeon, based at The University of Western Australia and is a Consultant General Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon.

He was the inaugural Professor of Medical Education at The University of Western Australia (UWA), Jeff is the Director of CTEC, a world-class skills training centre and is UWA’s Professor of Surgical Education. Over an extended period of time he has been influential in teaching and learning, curriculum development, assessment and student progress. At the postgraduate level he has been involved with the education of trainees through simulation. Jeff was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia, 2019, for services to medical education and surgery, particularly in the area of bariatric surgery.

Involved in the formation and inaugural Chair of the Western Australia Patient Blood Management Group (2018). Scientific Associate and Board Member, International Foundation for Patient Blood Management. Recently he has been a member of the Steering Committee for the development of the WHO Policy Brief: The urgent need to implement patient blood management – a framework for global PBM implementation and following this the WHO Global document: Guidance on implementing patient blood management to improve global blood health status.

Research interests include: medical, surgical and nursing education; obesity especially relating to interprofessional team care; role of medical and surgical simulation in education and training; curriculum development; surgical skills assessment; human factors in surgery; proficiency based assessment in skills acquisition; Patient Blood Management, clinical implementation, education and training; digital anatomy methodology and, abdominal wall biomechanics.

Publications include books and book chapters and peer reviewed research papers numbering in excess of 90 publications.

Founding partner Indonesian Clinical Training and Education Center (ICTEC), Jakarta