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Simon Richards serves as a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon in the Department of Surgery and Critical Care, University of Otago, Christchurch, within the Faculty of Medicine. He earned his MBChB with Distinction in 2009, PGDipSurgAnat with Distinction in 2011, and MMedSc with Distinction in 2020, all from the University of Otago. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in General Surgery since 2017 and a member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) since 2022. A Christchurch native, he completed his undergraduate medical training in Dunedin and surgical training in Christchurch. Following his FRACS fellowship, he advanced his expertise through subspecialty training in colorectal surgery at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth in 2019, the Royal Melbourne and Women’s Hospitals in 2020, and Western Health in Melbourne in 2021, prior to returning to Christchurch.