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Professor Simon Mitchell is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland. He also practises as an anaesthesiologist at Auckland City Hospital and as a diving physician at North Shore Hospital in Auckland. Mitchell holds the qualifications MB ChB, PhD, FANZCA, DipAdvDHM (ANZCA) and DipOccMed, and is a Fellow of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. His research focuses on anaesthesiology, diving and hyperbaric medicine, patient safety and human factors. He has authored or co-authored two books and more than 170 scientific journal papers or book chapters. Notable publications include co-authorship of the fifth edition of Diving and Subaquatic Medicine and contributions to the hyperbaric and diving medicine chapters in the last four editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine.

Mitchell has held leadership roles including two terms as Vice President of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (USA), for which he received the Behnke Award in 2010 for scientific contributions to diving medicine. He has also received the NOGI Award. His work has contributed to advances in understanding decompression illness, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and related clinical practices. Mitchell maintains active clinical, teaching and research commitments at the University of Auckland and affiliated hospitals.