Victor is a Consultant Trauma Surgeon at Auckland City Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He undertook surgical training in New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. He pursued his passion for trauma surgery at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa, where he successfully completed a PhD, and obtained an MD at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Returning to New Zealand to complete his specialist training in general surgery, he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and embarked on subspeciality training in trauma surgery in Auckland, becoming the first surgeon in New Zealand to complete the ANZAST programme. Subsequently, he completed an international fellowship at the world-renowned Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, and worked at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, one of the world’s largest and busiest trauma centres.