Nick is currently Medical Director of The Sussex Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine at The University of Brighton and a Research Fellow of the Chelsea School, University of Brighton and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London.  He was previously Medical Advisor to the National Sports Medicine Institute.  After completing GP vocational training within the Royal Air Force Medical Services he entered general practice with a part-time interest in sports medicine before taking the one year Diploma Course at the London Hospital Medical College in 1993 where he won the David Ritchie Prize for best student.

Following this he became full time in Sports Medicine and was Lecturer in Sports Medicine on the MSc Course at The Academic Department of Sports Medicine at The Royal London Hospital.  Nick has been Medical Officer with the GB Team at the Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney and has now joined the International Paralympic Medical Commission and attended the Salt Lake and Athens Paralympics on the anti-doping committee.  He won a Congress Award for his work on exercise in the heat for athletes with disabilities at the 4th IOC World Congress on Sport Sciences in 1997. 

He has been Medical Advisor for the Exercise Referral Scheme in Hailsham since 1992 and is co-author of the Dept of Health document, Exercise Referral Systems: a National Quality Assurance Framework published in 2001.  He became a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine in November 2000 and a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine in 2003 and a Fellow of the Institute of Sports Medicine in 2004.  He was a member of the London 2012 health advisory group presenting to the IOC evaluation commission and the planning group for the health legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games.

He has worked with elite Olympic and Paralympic sportsmen but also with professional tennis and football.  His clinical interests include lower limb pain in runners, Achilles and patellar tendinopathy, shoulder injuries in racquet sports and injuries to the ankle and knee.  He is trained in musculoskeletal ultrasound and uses this for diagnosis and for ultrasound guided injections including some novel techniques for tendon injections.  He uses homoeopathic injections (Traumeel) in the treatment of acute muscle injury.