He developed an interest in Ethics and the humanities during his medical studies and was a founder member of the UK Clinical Ethics Committee. These interests and especially the relationship between science and morality were further developed through his religion, the Bahai Faith. He convened a conference on The Relationship of Disease to Life Style in 2004 at De Poort and in 2006 at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on The Science of Morality, the proceedings of which he edited and had published by the College .