Originally trained as a teacher London (England).
Gained a B.Ed (London), MHMS (Qual) from University of Queensland and an MBA from Queensland University of Technology focusing on health care systems. He has undertaken Executive leadership and governance programs at Harvard and Oxford Universities.
David has over 40 years’ experience at CEO/Director and Chairman level, one of which was CEO of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He has been a Director of Australian Medicines Handbook, and Chairman of the Improvement Foundation.
David has considerable international consulting experience including in the UAE, Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, UK, and Cambodia.
His consulting work has included: governance reviews, strategic planning, organisational restructures, and business re-engineering for many clients in the Asia Pacific and Middle East. He was Director of Health for the Bahrain Economic Development Board, facilitating their Vision 2030 and Director and adviser for Quality for the Bahrain Defence Force Medical Services.
David has been an expert evaluator on health programs (Horizon 2020) for the European Commission and a member of the Expert Group on quality improvement of health systems with the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua). He has undertaken international consultancies on behalf of the WHO including developing a quality framework for tertiary hospitals (882) in Iran.
More recently he has been advising healthcare companies in Europe and the Asia Pacific in the pursuit of making a positive impact on the quality of care through the effective use of technology to improve collaboration between providers and within institutions.