Peter John Morris
Sir Peter John Morris (born April 17, 1934 in Horsham (Victoria) , Australia ) is an Australian-British transplant surgeon and vascular surgeon.
Morris graduated from the University of Melbourne . He had been at Oxford University since 1974 , most recently as Nuffield Professor of Surgery. He has now retired there. There he was head of the department of surgery and director of the transplant center.
He is currently (2010) Director of the Center for Evidence in Transplantation at the Royal College of Surgeons and the University of London and Director of the British Heart Foundation.
Morris is a pioneer in transplant surgery. He dealt with rejection reactions controlled by the MHC complex ( HLA ). In this context he also examined the distribution of the HLA gene in anthropological studies in the Pacific region.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1996 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . From 2001 to 2004 he was President of the Royal College of Surgeons, of which he is a Fellow, and he was President of the International Transplantation Society, the British Transplantation Society, the European Surgical Association and the International Surgical Society. In the USA he is an external member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . He holds honorary doctorates from Imperial College and Hong Kong University . He is an honorary member of the American Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the Japanese Surgical Society, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
In 1997 he received the Lister Medal . In 2004 he became Companion of the Order of Australia .
Fonts
- with Stuart J. Knechtle Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice , 6th edition, Saunders 2008
- Editor with William C. Wood Oxford Textbook of Surgery , 2nd edition, Oxford University Press 2000
- Editor with Leo C. Ginns, A. Benedict Cosimi Transplantation , Blackwell Science 1999
Web links
- Peter John Morris homepage in Oxford.Retrieved November 23, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to International Who's Who 2004
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Morris, Peter John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian-British surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horsham, Victoria |