-Practicing Medical doctor working in Primary Pain Management, -Currently providing part-time services at the AHA Documentation Based Care (DBC) Spinal Care Programme in Pietermaritzburg (2023- ) and the Optimum Health Centre in Howick-Public health physician (1981 to 2024)-Founder and Trustee of the Sustainable Enterprise for Enabling Development (SEED) Trust from 1993 to present-Director Research, Programme at Health Systems Trust (HST) from November 2005 to 31 October 2010-National Director of the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHCN) from 1994 - 1998 -Project Leader in 1992 and 1993 of the Natal Institute for Community Health Education and facilitator for Community Based Medical Education Programme (University of Natal Faculty of Medicine)-Community Medical Officer and Medical Director of the Valley Trust from 1981 to 1991-Skills: Chronic illness and persistent pain management, but earlier on focussed on district health systems, global health, public health medicine, epidemiology, health education, health promotion, medical education, primary health care especially maternal and child health, mental health, health development, health management, public health policy, health research (including randomised controlled trials, clinical research & clinical trials), data analysis, health advocacy, macro-economics, health financing, micro-credit, statistics, health information management, AI (ChatGPT - prompt engineering), quality improvement including good clinical practice, health equity, participatory approaches to health care and not least mHealth (mobile health), where my particular interests have been using cell-phone and information technology to undertake health research, manage CHW programmes and provide telemedicine. I have had extensive experience in strategic planning, proposal writing and developing innovative fundraising approaches over many decades. I have written several books, and my scientific writing has been focussed on action-oriented research translation. English is my first language, Afrikaans & Zulu are second languages.