A world-leading neuropsychologist with over a decade’s worth of experience working with elite athletes in both a clinical and research setting.

Andrew is a clinical neuropsychologist, and an Associate Professor with the School of Medicine & Public Health at The University of Newcastle. He is also a Co-Director of the Hunter New England Local Health District (HNE LHD)'s Sport Concussion Clinic, an Executive Committee Member of the Priority Research Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury and has served as the concussion consultant to Rugby Australia. He is a member World Rugby's concussion working. Andrew received first class honours in Psychology (University of New England) in 2005 and subsequently completed a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) degree at Macquarie University, Sydney, where he conducted research examining the acute and cumulative neuropsychological consequences of sports concussion in semi-professional rugby union players.

His thesis received the prestigious award for the Most Outstanding Dissertation for 2011 from the National Academy of Neuropsychology (USA); the first, and still the only, time this award has been bestowed upon a student who studied outside of North America. Following this, Andrew completed his PhD in the School of Medicine and Public Health, at the University of Newcastle, studying the potential long-term consequences of participation in collision sports.

In 2015 Andrew was awarded the Discovery Award from Research Australia as the national early career researcher of the year for 2015. He was made a 2017 AMP Tomorrow Maker to support the clinical and research work within the HNE LHD Sports Concussion Clinic. In 2018 Andrew received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award and travelled to Harvard Medical School.