I graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2000, and trained in surgery in the East of Scotland.  In 2005, I commenced a 3-year full-time PhD in prostate cancer genetics at Newcastle University funded by a prestigious Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship.  I moved to the West of Scotland for urology training, focussing on complex cancer surgery, and obtained urology specialist registration in 2014.  In parallel, as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, I continued post-doctoral research at the Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) Beatson Institute.  I was the first urologist in Scotland to be awarded a highly-competitive Royal College of Surgeons of England/CR-UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship in Surgery to support my research into prostate cancer.  I undertook a clinical and research fellowship in robotic "keyhole" prostate cancer surgery at the Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.  On my return to Glasgow in 2015, I was appointed as a Consultant Urologist specialising in laparoscopic "keyhole" kidney cancer surgery.  The same year, I was recruited to University College London NHS Foundation Trust Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, and Queen Mary University of London.  In 2020, I was appointed as an honorary Associate Professor at University College London.