Peter Morris (surgeon)

Sir Peter John Morris ( born April 17, 1934 in Horsham (Victoria ), Australia ) is an Australian- British transplant surgeon and vascular surgeon.

Morris studied at the University of Melbourne. He was at Oxford University, most recently as Nuffield Professor of Surgery since 1974. He is now professor emeritus there. He was there Head of the Department of Surgery and director of the transplant center.

He is currently (2010) Director of the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation of 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, controlled by the MHC complex ( HLA). In this context, he also studied the distribution of HLA gene in anthropological investigations in the Pacific.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was knighted in 1996. 2001 to 2004 he was president of the Royal College of Surgeons, whose fellow he is, and he was president of the International Transplantation Society, the British Transplantation Society, the European Surgical Association and the International Surgical Society. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine in the United States and the American Philosophical Society. He holds an honorary doctorate from Imperial College and the University of Hong Kong. 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 was awarded the Lister Medal. In 2004 he became a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Writings

• Stuart J. Knechtle Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, Saunders 2008
• Publisher William C. Wood, Oxford Textbook of Surgery, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press 2000
• Published by Leo C. Ginns, A. Benedict Cosimi transplantation, Blackwell Science 1999