I graduated from University of Melbourne, in 1983, completed a small animal medical and surgical neurology residency at North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine, USA, and a PhD in neuroscience at University of Glasgow, UK. My career has taken me to Melbourne, Glasgow and Massey Universities and, latterly, to the Veterinary Medicine Department at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. In 2019, I swapped Alaska’s -30 degrees C for +30 degrees C here in sunny Queensland and am now working at the Animal Referral Hospital, Brisbane. Along with my colleague, Dr. Caroline Hahn, we’ve distilled decades of study and teaching about clinical neuroanatomy and neurological localisation into ‘Veterinary Neuroanatomy: a Clinical Approach (Elsevier 2012). Functional neuroanatomy is at the heart of every neuro case. I love helping people understand a) the basic layout of the nervous system using the NeuroMap, b) the neurological examination and lesion localisation; and c) how to apply these concepts to their neurology cases.