The Cat in the Hat

Simon Mitchell (born 1958) is a New Zealand anaesthetist specialising in occupational medicine, hyperbaric medicine and anaesthesiology. He was awarded a PhD in Medicine for his work on neuroprotection from embolic brain injury, and has published more than 45 research and review papers in medical literature. Mitchell is an author and avid technical diver. He authored two chapters of the latest edition of Bennett and Elliott's Physiology and Medicine of Diving, is the co-author of the diving textbook Deeper Into Diving with John Lippmann, and co-authored the chapter on Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine with Michael Bennett.