Dr Lydia Maclaurin is a General Surgery registrar currently working at Wellington Regional Hospital. She has an MBChB from the University of Auckland and a BSc in Zoology from the University of Otago. Raised in Perth, Australia, Lydia has spent most of her adult life back in her home country of New Zealand and has worked in Waikato, Hawke’s Bay, Hutt Valley and now Wellington which has become home for her and her partner. Lydia has a particular interest in trauma and transplant surgery and hopes to pursue this further once securing a training position in General Surgery.