Education: Blackpool Collegiate Grammar
School, Dundee University where joined Navy Reserve, on qualifying in Medicine
transferred to Royal Navy; 1980-1990 Royal Navy: Falklands 1982 Medical Officer
on merchant aircraft carrier SS Atlantic Conveyor, sunk by Exocet attack,
subsequently saturation diver, parachutist, specialist and researcher in diving
and computer medicine, aviation medicine trained, projects included computer
assisted diagnosis at sea and deep diving research in UK, Canada, US and
Norway; selected from 18000 candidates over a 3 month period of comprehensive
physical, psychological, physiological and practical tests to become one of a
team of fou, he subsequently undertook astronaut training in UK and Russia,
learnt Russian and acted as a ground based mission specialist and reserve for
the Juno flight; became official Navy Astronaut before leaving Navy to further
his interest in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine; qualified
Ph.D. in Medical Informatics in London; currently head
of EMIS Knowledge Based Systems overseeing design and creation of successful
distributed and web based medical advice systems for clinicians and the general
public; also involved in production of support systems for Lawyers; interests
and hobbies: Sailing, Early British history (writing book based on computer
analysis of evidence), walking, algorithms. However he remains interested in
spaceflight too. One of three candidates from the United Kingdom in the 1992
ESA
selection, but stood down shortly after the actual selection process had
started.