Rate My Professor Ross Kerridge

Ross Kerridge is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. He holds an MBBS from the University of Sydney (1980), Fellowship of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA, 1986), and Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA, 1988). As a senior staff specialist anaesthetist at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, Kerridge is internationally recognized as the grandfather of perioperative medicine. Beginning in 1989 at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, he led the development of key concepts including preoperative assessment and optimization, optimization of immediate postoperative care, introduction of the medical emergency team, and improving futile intensive care treatments. In 1990, he conceived and implemented the first hospital-wide adult medical emergency team service. Early in his career, he worked with the Careflight Helicopter Medical Retrieval Service and, following a serious accident, spent six months as a hospital patient, gaining unique insights into healthcare systems.

Kerridge pioneered the Perioperative System model of care for elective surgery in 1989, now standard in Australia and adapted internationally. He has led prehabilitation programs, participated in multicentre trials via the ANZCA clinical trials network, and served as Associate Editor of the journal Perioperative Medicine. He contributes to the ANZ Perioperative Special Interest Group and SPAQI, and has visited over 150 hospitals in 20 countries to observe clinical practices. His research in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine is reflected in over 55 publications and more than 2,200 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include Optimizing Patient Preparation and Surgical Experience Using Computerised Information Systems (2015), Providing Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Care to Surgical Patients: The Case for Computers (2009), and Recent Advances in Diabetes Treatments and Their Perioperative Implications (2019).