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Dr Savitha Bhagvan

Dr Savitha Bhagvan is a Consultant General, Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon at Auckland City Hospital, and in private practice at Mercy Specialist Centre.

After finishing surgical training in India, she moved to New Zealand in 2003 and underwent further surgical training in New Zealand and Australia.

She obtained her Fellowship from Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 2016 in General Surgery. She underwent post fellowship training in Trauma at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. She received the Fellowship of American College of Surgeons (FACS) in 2022.

Her interests are in General Surgery, Trauma and Research. Her subspecialty interest is in injuries of the chest and rib fracture management.

She is a member of Chest Wall Injury Society (CWIS), Australian & New Zealand Trauma Society (ANZTS), Australian and New Zealand association for Surgery of Trauma (ANZAST), American College of Surgeons (ACS) and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST).

She is a committee member of Northern Regional Trauma Network, and Director of ANZTS. She is an instructor for Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST or ALTS) and Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC).