Rate My Professor Wayne Morriss

Morriss's academic interests center on global anaesthesia workforce and training, global anaesthesia standards, neurosurgical anaesthesia, resuscitation and trauma management, obstetric anaesthesia, and pain management education. Notable publications include 'The WFSA global anesthesia workforce survey' (2017), 'Perioperative mortality rate (POMR): a global indicator of access to safe surgery and anaesthesia' (2015), 'Pain management in low- and middle-income countries' (2018), 'What is the minimum number of specialist anaesthetists needed in low-income and middle-income countries?' (2018), and 'The Global Anesthesia Workforce Survey: Updates and trends in the anesthesia workforce' (2024). His impact on the field is evident through leadership at the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), serving as President (2022-2024, the first New Zealander), President-Elect (2020-2022), Director of Programmes (2016-2020), and Chair of the Education Committee (2012-2016). As WFSA liaison to the World Health Organization, he addressed the World Health Assembly on anaesthesia workforce resourcing and health disparities. He co-developed educational programmes such as Essential Pain Management (EPM), Primary Trauma Care (PTC), and Safer Anaesthesia From Education (SAFE). In 2024, he received the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists President’s Award and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Robert Orton Medal for distinguished service.