Roger McMorrow
Roger McMorrow is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the National Maternity 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.
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 Caudwell Xtreme Everest expedition. He was subsequently honoured 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. 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 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
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°49'49N 79°18'05 E Draiocht Parbat.
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 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
*US 7214184
2. A Breathing Apparatus
*PCT/EP2007/001583
Media
- BBC: Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone
- Guardian: Doctors to climb Everest - and get out the exercise bikes
- BBC: Research doctors target Everest
- BBC: NI doctors in Everest rescue drama
- Sky News: Doc's mountain to climb
- Timesonline: Doctors at the peak of their profession
- Ulster star: A call from the top of the world