Michael qualified as a podiatrist from the University of Brighton in 1989. Michael has clinical experience working in the National Health Service specialising in lower limb gait rehabilitation post trauma. Michael also has commercial and industrial experience, delivering a podiatry offer within a pharmacy setting and working for an orthoses manufacturer, and academic experience, as a Lecturer in Podiatry (Anatomy and Pathomechanics) and Head of School at the Birmingham School of Podiatry. Michael’s academic interests centre on researching the mechanical behaviour of the heel fibro-fatty padding within gait. Currently, Michael has been appointed as Sales Training Manager for Cuxson Gerrard & Co. Ltd and he continues to work, part time in private practise.