Wayne Morriss

Wayne trained in Christchurch and Melbourne and then moved with his family to Fiji in 2000 to work as a Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Physiology at the Fiji School of Medicine. He and his family returned to Christchurch in 2002.

Wayne has continued to be involved with anaesthesia education in the Pacific region and further afield, and has been closely involved with the development and roll-out of international educational programmes, such as Essential Pain Management (EPM), Primary Trauma Care (PTC), Safer Anaesthesia From Education (SAFE) and the WFSA Fellowship Programme.

He is the current President-Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and will take over as President in July 2022. He served as Chair of the WFSA Education Committee from 2012-2016 and Director of Programmes from 2016-2020.