Tony trained in Medicine in Cambridge and Oxford, qualified in 1983, and did junior medical jobs in Oxford, Bath, London, Geneva and Sheffield. He returned to Oxford in 1987, pursued research interests in malarial and staphylococcal pathogenesis, and completed specialist training in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine. In 1997 he was appointed Consultant Physician-in-Charge of the Bone Infection Unit at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC), leading its development as a multi-disciplinary unit dealing with all aspects of bone and joint infection and becoming an international authority on the treatment of bone and joint infections and the diabetic foot.

He has twelve years’ experience on NHS Trust Boards as a Medical Director (of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre [NOC] NHS Trust from 2004 to 2011, of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust from 2014-2018). In both roles he was also the DIPC, and led organizational responses to MRSA, Clostridium difficile, pandemic influenza, Ebola, and flu immunisation.

Since September 2018 he has been working as an organisational consultant and executive coach. He obtained his Masters’ degree (with Merit) in Leading and Consulting in Organisations from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, and University of Essex, in 2018; is an accredited Analytic-Network Coach; and is an Associate of FMLM Applied (the consulting arm of FMLM) and of the leadership development company Practive. He is a Founding Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, a Senior Associate Tutor in the University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Management in Medicine programme at Green Templeton College, Oxford.

He is particularly interested in how leaders can develop perspectives that help maintain compassion for themselves and others despite the high emotional and practical demands placed on them, especially within the pressurised environment of the NHS.