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Allen Cockfield is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch, within the Division of Health Sciences. He serves as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Canterbury District Health Board and maintains a private practice with the Hand and Wrist Centre. Cockfield earned his MBChB from the University of Otago in 1997 and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Orthopaedic Surgery (FRACS(Ortho)) in 2009. His postgraduate training encompassed specialty orthopaedic and trauma surgery in New Zealand, followed by advanced subspecialty fellowships in sports surgery in Auckland, upper limb surgery—including shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand procedures—at the Brisbane Upper Limb Clinic/Research Institute and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Australia, and paediatric orthopaedics at Starship Children's Hospital in New Zealand, Shriners Hospital for Children in Portland, Oregon, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, United Kingdom.