GEOFFREY METZ underwent undergraduate and postgraduate general medicine training in Melbourne then five years training in gastroenterology at Central Middlesex Hospital, London before returning to clinical appointments at Alfred Hospital and Epworth Hospital in Melbourne.

Geoffrey has had a very keen interest in medical education over several decades.  He was Chairman of Continuing Education and Continuing Professional Development at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians for several years before becoming President Elect and then President of the College.

Geoffrey has been deeply involved in development of medical education internationally through the World Gastroenterology Organisation over the past twenty years and is currently President-Elect of the WGO. In that role, he also chairs an International Committee on the effects of Climate Change on health.

Over the past 19 years, Geoffrey negotiated with The University of Melbourne, Monash University and then Deakin University to develop the Epworth Clinical School, the first Clinical School in a private hospital group in Australia and was appointed the inaugural Dean of Medicine at Epworth Healthcare.

Geoffrey is a Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne and also at Monash University. 

In 2001, Geoffrey was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for services to medicine and in 2021 was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia for further services to medicine and for International and National educational activities.