Rate My Professor Allen Cockfield

Allen Cockfield is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch, within the Division of Health Sciences. He serves as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Canterbury District Health Board and maintains a private practice with the Hand and Wrist Centre. Cockfield earned his MBChB from the University of Otago in 1997 and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Orthopaedic Surgery (FRACS(Ortho)) in 2009. His postgraduate training encompassed specialty orthopaedic and trauma surgery in New Zealand, followed by advanced subspecialty fellowships in sports surgery in Auckland, upper limb surgery—including shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand procedures—at the Brisbane Upper Limb Clinic/Research Institute and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Australia, and paediatric orthopaedics at Starship Children's Hospital in New Zealand, Shriners Hospital for Children in Portland, Oregon, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, United Kingdom.

In his clinical practice, Cockfield specializes in general orthopaedics, upper limb orthopaedic surgery (shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand), paediatric orthopaedics, joint replacement surgery for hip, shoulder, wrist (including distal radioulnar joint), and small joints of the hand, as well as arthroscopic procedures for shoulder, elbow, wrist, and carpal tunnel. He is a member of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA), New Zealand Shoulder and Elbow Society (NZSES), New Zealand Society for Surgery of the Hand (NZSSH), and Paediatric Orthopaedic Society of New Zealand (POSNZ). Cockfield's academic output includes peer-reviewed publications such as 'Traumatic posterior sternoclavicular joint dislocation – Current aspects of management' (Injury, 2023), 'Pectoralis Major Rupture in an Active Female' (2019), 'Peripheral eosinophilia in children with transient synovitis of the hip: 7-year experience from a single centre in New Zealand' (Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, 2016), and 'Defining Residual Radial Translation of Distal Radius Fractures: A Potential Cause of Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability' (2014), accumulating 80 citations as per his research profile.