Roger McMorrow

Infobox Scientist


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name = Roger McMorrow
birth_date = Oct 101975
birth_place = Monze Zambia
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residence = Dublin, Flagcountry|Ireland|
nationality = Irish, British
field = Medicine, Anaesthesia, Mountaineering, Bespoke Engineering
work_institution = Rotunda Hospital
alma_mater = Queens University Belfast
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Roger McMorrow is an Anaesthetist and research fellow in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. He is Co-Founder and Chair of the Expeditionary Research Society of Ireland, inventor of the McMorrow Laryngoscope and the CXE Breathing Circuit and is one of Ireland's Everest Summiteers. [ [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=16015 Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news ] ]

Early life and education

Born October 10 1975 in Monze, Zambia to John and Nuala McMorrow. Roger spent his childhood growing up in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He attended St. Colman's Primary School, Lisburn then Rathmore Grammar School, Belfast where he studied to GCSE level, he completed his secondary education to Advanced Level at Friends School Lisburn. He studied Medicine at the Queens University Belfast and was president of the Queens University Mountaineering Club from 1997 to 1998. On May 24 2007 he summited Everest as a member of the research team on the [http://www.xtreme-everest.co.uk Caudwell Xtreme Everest] expedition. He was subsequently honoured as the Queens University [http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/Alumni/Events/PastEvents/2007Events/GraduateStudentoftheYearwinners/ Graduate of the Year 2007] for his part in the rescue of a young Nepalese woman left for dead near the summit of Everest. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6700603.stm BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | NI doctors in Everest rescue drama ] ] Roger now lives in Dublin with his wife Sara Spencer. They have two children Aoife and Isolde.

Qualifications

Roger McMorrow holds a bachelor of Medicine MB, BCh, BAO degree from the Queen's University Belfast and a [http://www.medex.org.uk/dimm_(mountain_medicine_diploma).htm Diploma in Mountain Medicine] Dip Mtn Med from the University of Leicester. He is a fellow FCARCSI of the Irish [http://www.anaesthesia.ie College of Anaesthetists] . He is currently completing an MD with the University College Dublin

Mountaineering

Roger has climbed extensively in the British Isles, European Alps, and the Greater Ranges including two expeditions within the Arctic Circle. He and a small team, which included his wife Sara, completed the traverse and first assent of a previously unnamed and unclimbed peak in the Garhwal Himalaya. They subsequently named the mountain located at 30°49'49" N 79°18'05" E Draiocht Parbat. [http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/2003/365_377_india_aaj2003.pdf#search="mcmorrow"] [http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/2004/486_index_aaj2004.pdf]

Significant Climbs

*2002 Draiocht Parbat 6175m Summited April 13

*2005 Cho Oyu 8201m Summited September 25

*2007 Everest 8848m Summited May 24

Research Expeditions

Roger was a member of the following research expeditions :

*1994 British Schools Exploring Society BSES Norwegian Arctic expedition

*1998 [http://www.medex.org.uk/K98.HTM MedEx Kangchenjunga]

*1999 MedEx Eureka Arctic Circle study

*2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition

Patents

Roger holds patents on two life sciences inventions:
1. A New Mirrored Laryngoscope

* [http://www1.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week19-old/OG/html/1318-2/US07214184-20070508.html US 7214184]

* [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1450669.html EP1450669]

*DE60221889

* [http://www.patentamt.at/Home/Erfindungsschutz/Publikationen%202006/PB2007009IIASC.txt AT369783]

2. A Breathing Apparatus

* [http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2007096181&IA=WO2007096181&DISPLAY=STATUS PCT/EP2007/001583]

Media

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/everest/ BBC: Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/mar/16/science.science Guardian: Doctors to climb Everest - and get out the exercise bikes]

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6418867.stm BBC: Research doctors target Everest]

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6700603.stm BBC: NI doctors in Everest rescue drama]

* [http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13312055,00.html Sky News: Doc's mountain to climb]

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article428783.ece Timesonline: Doctors at the peak of their profession]

* [http://lisburn.com/information/2007news/top-of-the-world.html Ulster star: A call from the top of the world]

See Also

* [http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/Alumni/Events/PastEvents2006-2007/2007Events/GraduateStudentoftheYearwinners/ Queens's University Graduate of the year 2007]

* [http://www.friendsschoollisburn.org.uk/news.asp?id=104 Friends School Flag on Everest]

References