Paul is the principal surgeon at Profilo and provides the surgical expertise in the provision of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Trained in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia, Paul has extensive knowledge and training in all facets of the surgical specialty. As well as having bachelor and masterate degrees in dentistry (BDS Honours University of Sydney & MDS in OMS University of Otago), and medicine/surgery (MB & ChB University of Otago) he holds a full surgical fellowship in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (FRACDS OMS), and was awarded with the honor of an ad eundem Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Faculty of Dental Surgeons (FDSRCS a.e. England), in June 2009, based on his international career achievement and qualifications to date.

Working with outstanding staff, and sustained by above-par relationships with major hospitals, specialist surgical providers, pharmacists, and the professional medical and dental communities, Paul is able to provide the key role in the team provision of complex multidisciplinary surgical Oral & Maxillofacial care.

As part of a long family tradition of Australian military service (beginning with his great grandfather in the Boer conflict, his grandfather's WW2 experience in Kokoda and PNG, and his mother's experience as a Lieutenant army nurse during the Malayan crisis), Paul is also a Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Australian Navy, Medical Specialist Reserves and also provides civilian surgical support to the wider military community.

Paul is supported by a loving wife (Angela), and has three daughters Alessandra (born 1998), Mia (born 2005) and Gigi (born 2011) and two sons Kaleb (born 2006) and Massimiliano (born 2009). Born in Sydney (his family first emigrated to Sydney from Perth, Scotland in 1826), he has lived and worked in Newcastle since late 1999, and was first introduced to the Hunter area after working a brief stint at Royal Newcastle Hospital in 1989. Paul's family are a mixture of Scots, English, Italian and Swiss heritage, and Paul's children all maintain citizenships with Switzerland, Italy (EC), New Zealand, and of course Australia.

Paul has worked at the John Hunter, Royal Newcastle, Calvary-Mater Misericordiæ, Belmont and James Fletcher Public Hospitals, Toronto, Warner's Bay & Newcastle Private Hospitals and in a number of roles including psychiatric medicine, emergency medicine, surgery, and in public and private Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

With a full working and training background in trauma and emergency medicine and surgery, as well as dentistry, Paul eventually completed his full surgical training in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery after 16 years of formal training before returning to permanently settle in Newcastle with his family.