Ken is a Brisbane orthopaedic surgeon working exclusively on the shoulder and upper limb, with his private practice based at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital.

He received his medical degree from the University of Queensland, then did his internship and several years of junior surgical training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. He was awarded the Gordon-Taylor Medal for the first part surgical examination, given to the trainee with the highest score across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Then his own path bent. He began surgical training in neurosurgery, became disenchanted with it, and switched to orthopaedics, taking non-training positions in Darwin and at the Gold Coast Hospital before completing a postgraduate fellowship in hand and upper limb surgery back at the Princess Alexandra.

He was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Queensland in 2016 for his teaching, research and leadership, and Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. He received the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia International Travelling Fellowship in 2011, visiting surgeons in France, Italy, Switzerland and Denmark, and is a corresponding member of the European Shoulder and Elbow Society. He publishes in international journals, speaks at surgical meetings around the world, and supervises two Australian Orthopaedic Association accredited fellowships in shoulder arthroscopy and arthroplasty, training Australian and internationally trained surgeons.

He is also, by his own admission, a Joe Rogan listener, which is roughly where the format came from. Long, unhurried conversations with people who are good at something specific.