Barney is the founder of Optimal Clinical Trials and currently works as a non executive Director of the NZCR group. The group includes NZCR, Optimal Clinical Trials, CMAX and Fusion covering specialist early phase units and separate late phase units across New Zealand and Australia.
With over 20 years of medical experience, and investigator roles in over 40 commercially sponsored clinical trials, Barney founded Optimal Clinical Trials in 2013. He graduated from Otago Medical School in 2002 and has worked in New Zealand, the UK and Australia. As well as an experienced principal investigator, Barney is also a general practitioner. Barney has a wide variety of interests and his areas of special interest include: asthma, vaccines and dermatology. He has always fostered a strong desire to help people and cherishes his role conducting research that forms the backbone of evidence-based medicine, and helping develop new medications to ease suffering and improve people’s lives.
Barney lives happily in Auckland with his wife and 3 children. Barney has been involved in starting several successful businesses, played basketball for New Zealand as a junior and loves doing anything active.