Professor Alan Merry
Alan Merry, ONZM, is Professor of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland. He chairs the Quality and Safety Committee of the World Federation
of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. He is a councillor of the
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and chairs the
College’s Quality and Safety Committee. He previously co-chaired the
New Zealand Medical Law Reform Group, has served as president of the
Auckland Medico-Legal Society and founded Safer Sleep Ltd. He is
co-author of the books Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alexander
McCall Smith; Cambridge University Press, 2001), Essential
Perioperative Transoesophageal Echocardiography (with David Sidebotham
and Malcolm Legget; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003), and Safety and Ethics
in Healthcare – A Guide to Getting it Right (with Bill Runciman and
Merrilyn Walton: Ashgate, 2007).
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