Roger McMorrow

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Roger McMorrow

Born Oct 10, 1975
Monze Zambia
Residence Dublin, Flag of Ireland Ireland
Nationality Irish, British
Fields Medicine, Anaesthesia, Mountaineering, Bespoke Engineering
Institutions Rotunda Hospital
Alma mater Queens University Belfast


Dr 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 Irelands Everest Summiteers.[1]

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. Colemans 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 Caudwell Xtreme Everest expedition. He was subsequently honored as the Queens University Graduate of the Year 2007 for his part in the rescue of a young Nepalese woman left for dead near the summit of Everest.[2] Roger now lives in Dublin with his wife Sara Spencer. They have two children Aoife and Isolde.

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[edit] Qualifications

Roger McMorrow holds a bachelor of Medicine MB, BCh, BAO degree from the Queen's University Belfast and a Diploma in Mountain Medicine Dip Mtn Med from the University of Leicester. He is a fellow FCARCSI of the Irish College of Anaesthetists. He is currently completing an MD with the University College Dublin

[edit] 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.[3][4]


[edit] Significant Climbs

[edit] Research Expeditions

Roger was a member of the following research expeditions :

  • 1994 British Schools Exploring Society BSES Norwegian Arctic expedition
  • 1998 MedEx Kangchenjunga
  • 1999 MedEx Eureka Arctic Circle study
  • 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition

[edit] Patents

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

2. A Breathing Apparatus

[edit] Media

[edit] See Also


[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=16015
  2. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6700603.stm
  3. ^ http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/2003/365_377_india_aaj2003.pdf#search="mcmorrow"
  4. ^ http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/2004/486_index_aaj2004.pdf