He completed his undergraduate training in 2002 at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and went on to specialise in surgery at the University of Cape Town completing his FCS(SA) in 2011 and MMed(Surgery) in 2012. Awarded the Garron Caine Travelling Fellowship he attended the Harvard Centre for Surgery and Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in 2014. He completed his sub-specialist qualification in Critical Care in 2015 and currently works in the ICU, directing the ECMO program at Groote Schuur Hospital and is still active in kidney and liver transplantation. David has an interest in medical education creating the open online course Organ Donation: From Death to Life in 2017 and running ECMO training workshops nationally.