Prof. Richard Stubbs MD, FRCS, FRACS (Surgeon and Director)

Richard Stubbs graduated from Otago University as a medical doctor in 1976. After spending two years as a house-surgeon in NZ, he travelled to the UK where he undertook specialist surgical training at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London under the mentorship of Professor Leslie Blumgart, who was at that time becoming one of the World's leading figures in hepatobiliary (liver and bile ducts) and pancreatic surgery. Richard spent a total of seven and a half years in London and Los Angeles, working with Professor Blumgart and a number of other prominent international surgeons.

Richard returned to NZ, to practice as a specialist hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal surgeon in 1986 and was appointed senior lecturer in Surgery at the Wellington School of Medicine and Consultant surgeon at Wellington Hospital. He resigned from that position in 1991 to establish the Wakefield Clinic which has gone on to become a highly regarded and specialised Centre for the surgical treatment of liver cancer and obesity in particular. In 2008 he was appointed as a professor within the University of Otago, Wellington, where he is Director of the Wakefield Biomedical Research Unit.