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New Zealand Training Committee

The New Zealand Training Committee is a subcommittee of the New Zealand Board in General Surgery. The Training Committee is responsible for the Selection and training of General Surgeons in New Zealand. Currently there are 69 General Surgical trainees in New Zealand.

To contact any member of the New Zealand Training Committee please direct enquiries to nzbigs@nzags.co.nz or phone +64 4 384 5731.

Committee Members

Name	Role	Region
Mr Dave Moss	Chair and Research Subcommittee	Middlemore
Mr Jeremy Rossaak	Deputy Chair	Tauranga
Mr Simon Bann	Past Chair of Training Committee and Chair of NZBiGS	Wellington
Mr John Lengyel		Whangarei
Mr John Jarvis		North Shore
Mr Isaac Cranshaw		Auckland
Dr Magda Biggar		Middlemore
Mr Linus Wu		Waikato
Mr Jeremy Rossaak		Tauranga
Mr Etienne Truter	Research Subcommittee	Rotorua
Mr Peter Stiven		Gisborne
Dr Emily Davenport		Hawkes Bay
Mr Falah El-Haddawi		Taranaki
Dr Marianne Lill		Whanganui
Dr Alexandra Gordon		Palmerston North
Mr James Tietjens		Hutt
Mr Simon Harper		Wellington
Dr Jane Strang		Nelson
Dr Sarah Abbott		Christchurch
Mr Mark Smith		Dunedin
Mr Paul Samson		Invercargill
Dr Ashwini Pondicherry	Trainee representative