He was inaugural Chair of the Auckland Hospital Research Ethics Committee, a founding member of the HRC National Ethics committee, inaugural director of Continuing Education for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in NZ and inaugural Masonic Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the University of Auckland. On retiring from that position he was appointed Assistant Dean (Academic) and awarded a personal Chair in Medicine and Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has held local and national positions in the Baptist Churches of Aotearoa New Zealand and served a term as Dean of the Auckland Consortium of Theological Education and Hon. Dean of Theology in the University of Auckland. He chairs the board of the HOPE Foundation for Research on Ageing which he inaugurated in 1994.