Professor
Michael Harmer, qualified from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Medical School in 1974. He did his house officer and initial
anaesthesia posts in Winchester before moving to Cardiff to
do a 2-year registrar post. He has been in Cardiff since!
A three-year period as lecturer to the then Welsh School of
Medicine provided the opportunity to develop patient-controlled
analgesia for use in postoperative pain management and kindle
an interest in acute pain, in general. The next 15 years was
then spent as an NHS Consultant in Cardiff with specific interests
in paediatrics, vascular and more lately obstetrics.
After an initial secondment from his NHS post to run the academic department, he was appointed to the Chair in 1997. His clinical interests remain in acute pain, obstetrics and airway management.
Away from Cardiff, he is an elected member of the Council
of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
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