a/Prof Matt Rickard – Chair – DAISI

Associate Professor Matt Rickard is the Chair of Doctors Assisting In South-Pacific Islands (DAISI). Matt is a Colorectal Surgeon at Concord Hospital and Macquarie University Hospital. He is the immediate past chair of the Australian and New Zealand Training Board of Colorectal Surgery, previous chair of the RACS Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery and previous CSSANZ council member. Matt has had a longstanding interest in humanitarian work. He has worked in Kenya and South Africa for a number of years.  He also works with PANGEA (formerly Specialists Without Borders) and, throughout the 2010’s, has been on 5 trips with Pangea to Rwanda, Malawi and Zimbabwe. He has also volunteered and operated in Cambodia and East Timor. Matt first volunteered with DAISI in the Solomon Islands, and now is actively involved in implementing laparoscopic training in Port Moresby and Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands at Sopas Hospital.

Matt’s executive experience arrived just in time as the COVID epidemic hit with the down-time allowing a shift in DAISI ‘s emphasis to improving DAISI’s international and corporate governance procedures & policies.

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