Alistair did his undergraduate training at UCL and went on to an academic foundation programme post at Addenbrookes Hospital and Cambridge University working in the Brain Imaging Lab. During his F2 he taught as a clinical supervisor for Gonville and Caius student being awarded excellence in teaching award two years running and becoming an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy. After foundation training, he was a Junior Anatomy Demonstrator for Cambridge University with clinical placement in Plastic Surgery out of term times. During this year he also completed a PGCert in medical education with the Institute of Higher Education, Cambridge Uni. Moving to London to start Neurosurgical training he has rotated between Imperial College Hospital, The Royal London Hospital and Queens, Romford teaching neurosurgical specific lectures for medical students for each affiliated university as part of their MBBS course. He continues to undertake research during his training and has been co-author for a number of publications. He has interest in vascular and skull base neurosurgical pathologies and treatments.