Professor Michael is a Consultant Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Medical Oncologist, co-chair of the Peter Mac ENETs Centre of Excellence and Medical/Trial lead for the Upper GI Tumour Stream. He graduated from Monash University, completed his medical oncology training at the Peter Mac followed by a 2 year Fellowship at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario Canada.

Returning to Peter Mac as a Consultant Oncologist in 1998, he has now over 25 years of considerable clinical experience in gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine oncology. This is in parallel with the development of clinical and translational research programs and trials in the areas of oncological pharmacology, dose individualisation, pharmacogenomics, novel multi-modality combination therapies both in gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine oncology. Current projects include the identification of novel genetic biomarkers to predict the clinical behaviour of patients with NETs, the establishment of DPYD/UGT1A1 screening programs at Peter Mac and in regional/rural centres, assessing novel chemoradiation therapies (including with immunotherapy) in patients with gastric and rectal cancers, combination treatments to increase the effects of PRRT, and associated translational studies with several laboratory groups based at Peter Mac with the supervision of PhD students.