A graduate of the University of Newcastle and trained in Anatomical Pathology with the Hunter Area Pathology Service, Ben joined Pathwest as a Consultant Pathologist and the University of Western Australia as Clinical Senior Lecturer in 2006. In the role of Lead Pathologist, he established the PathWest QEII Dermatopathology Group in 2010.

In 2011 he spent a sabbatical period as a post?doctoral fellow at University of California San Francisco Dermatopathology. He has a wide diagnostic and research interests in dermatopathology, including cutaneous adnexal neoplasms, melanocytic lesions and the role of digital microscopy in dermatopathology.