David was born and raised in Melbourne, completing his undergraduate medical training at Melbourne University in 1973.

He completed his orthopaedic surgical training through the Melbourne Orthopaedic Training Programme in 1981.

This was followed by 12 months of further surgical training at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, England and he spent 6 months as a travelling fellow in Europe and Sweden. David returned to Melbourne to join the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group at the beginning of 1984 where he continues to practice orthopaedic surgery. He spent 10 years as a visiting orthopaedic surgeon at the Alfred Hospital but is now in full time private practice.

David’s special interests are sports medicine and arthritis surgery. David is the orthopaedic surgeon to Western Bulldogs, Australian Rules Football team and is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Australian and Victorian Institutes of Sport, Netball Australia and the Melbourne based National Basketball League teams. He continues to have active research interests in knee ligament injuries and patellar instability problems the management of stress fractures in athletes and the perennial problem of groin pain in athletes. In addition he has a large joint replacement practice with a large percentage of his patients being in the younger age groups.

David is a member of the Australian Arthroplasty Association, the Australian Knee Society and the Australian Shoulder and Elbow Society. He lectures on the Victorian Orthopaedic Training Programme, Postgraduate Manipulative Physiotherapy Programme and the Postgraduate Sports Physiotherapy Programme. David is married with four children and enjoys the sports of snow-skiing, wind-surfing and golf. His hobbies include woodcarving and antique furniture restoration.