Former Medical Officer: Kangaroos FC & Carlton FC (AFL)
Medical Officer for The Sydney Olympics

Philip graduated in 1973 from Monash University with an Honours degree in Medicine and Surgery.

In 1980 he gained the post graduate Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has served on the Victorian Panel of Examiners for this qualification.

In 1987 he completed the Sports Medicine course run jointly by the Australian Sports Medicine Federation and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and was Medical Officer with the Kangaroos from 1988 until 1993.

From late 1993 to late 2002 he was medical officer for the Carlton Football Club. He has worked as a doctor for the 2000 Olympics.  He has a keen interest in the sports person as a whole.

Philip was awarded a fellowship of Sports Doctors Australia in 2001 as recognition of his sports medicine expertise.