Professor Ray Morris

Biography/ Background

Ray Morris received his PhD degree in 1982 from University of Adelaide, South Australia, having held a grant-funded Research Officer position for 7 years. He then moved to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, to a medical scientist position in the Clinical Pharmacology Department, currently located in the Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational  Health Research (TQEH).  He was appointed Chief Medical Scientist in 1987, and has remained in this department since and has headed the laboratory for 25 years.  His research interests have focussed around therapeutic drug monitoring, particularly immunosuppressant drugs. He authored/co-authored more than 125 papers and 170 conference abstracts.  Activities in more recent years include; contributions to the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring & Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT) including Co-chairing the Congress in Cairns in 1999, 4-yr as Chair of the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Committee, 4-yr as Councillor, 2-yr as Director of Education, and 4-yr on Executive Committee as Treasurer. He served as President of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology (ASCEPT) during 2010. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Clinical Biochemistry, and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. He has been an affiliate title holder for  20 years, including Affiliate  Professor from 2011.

Contact Details

email: ray.morris@health.sa.gov.au

phone: 08 8222 6753

fax: 08 8222 6033

Qualifications

BSc, PhD

Research Interests

therapeutic drug monitoring, immunosuppressant drugs, local anaesthetics, perhexiline

Professional Associations

Australasian Society of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacologists & Toxicolgists (ASCEPT), International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring & Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT), American Association of Clinical Chemists (AACC)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 21 Jun 2011