I was appointed by invitation as the Foundation Chair of Anatomy at Griffith University in 2009, and Head of School of Medical Science from 2013 to 2021. My research is in skeletal mechanics, biology and adaptation and has increased understanding of the mechanisms of skeletal adaptation, stress fracture repair and bone tissue quality in osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and tissue banking. I was a NHMRC Fellow at Indiana University Medical Centre with David Burr and Charles Turner from 1991-1994, following which I returned to the The University of Queensland, My research has been continuously funded by NHMRC since 1996, I am the immediate Past-President of ANZBMS. In 2016, I was elected as a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2019 a Fellow of ASBMR.