Matt Morgan (doctor)
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Matt Morgan (born 25 January 1980) is a British intensive care doctor and author. He is best known as author of Critical and One Medicine.
Early life and education
He attended The University of Wales College of Medicine in 1998, now part of Cardiff University. Midway through training, he spent a year at Bristol University studying Medical Law and Ethics. He also spent time as a sponsored RAF cadet during his studies. After graduating in 2004, he spent time working in South Wales and Australia, before doing a PhD in medical artificial intelligence at Cardiff University between 2010-2013.[1].
Career
Medicine
He became a consultant in intensive care medicine at The University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff in 2016. He spent three years as the Welsh lead for critical care research during the COVID pandemic[2]. Between 2022-2023, he worked as a consultant in The Royal Perth Hospital, Australia and was appointed as an adjunct Professor by Curtin University. He returned to his role in Cardiff in 2023[3][4]
Research
He has contributed to more than 50 scientific articles following his PhD in artificial intelligence including The New England Journal of Medicine[5][6][7], The Lancet[8] and The American Heart Journal[9].[citation needed] He is a regular columnist at the British Medical Journal.[citation needed][10]
Charity and public engagement work
His is a member of the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS[11] and is the medical advisor for The National Theatre' in London's production of "Nye", the story of Aneurin Bevan written by Tim Price (writer)|Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris and starring Michael Sheen[12]. He is an ambassador for the bereavement charity 2Wish[13], donating a percentage of his book sales to this charity and Room to Read. He gave the 2023 Woodridge Lecture in London[14] and was nominated for the Royal Society's David Attenborough prize for public engagement in 2022.
Media work
He has spoken to large audiences at some of the largest book festivals in the world including Hay[15] and Ubud[16]. His articles have featured in The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, Esquire magazine, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Mirror and The Huffington Post. He has spoken on a number of popular podcasts and radio programmes including The Today Program on BBC Radio 4 and international talk shows[17].
He has appeared on many television programs including Sky News, CNN, ITV, The BBC, The Jeremy Vine Show and international channels.[citation needed][18][19]
Work during the pandemic
His open letter to patients during the pandemic was read by over half a million people worldwide and viewed three million times on international news channels[20][21]. It addressed difficult issues including end of life care and prompted a national discussion allowing the voices of patients and their families to be heard[22][23]
His checklist for management of critically ill patients with COVID was adopted by the UK’s intensive care society with over 7000 interactions globally. He was an expert witness for the Welsh Government on a number of occasions and advisor to other national bodies[24]
Publications
- Morgan, Matt (2019). Critical. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471173066.
- Morgan, Matt (2023). One Medicine. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471173073.
References
- ↑ Morgan, Matthew Philip (2014). Immune fingerprinting in acute severe sepsis. PhD Thesis (phd). Cardiff University.
- ↑ "Making research careers work" (PDF). Health Care Research Wales.
- ↑ Morgan, Matt (21 March 2023). "Why I left the NHS—and why I'm coming home". BMJ. 380: 639. doi:10.1136/bmj.p639. PMID 36944433.
- ↑ Billen, Andrew (22 Feb 2023). "How to reform the NHS, the Australian way". The Times.
- ↑ Dankiewicz, Josef (17 June 2021). "Hypothermia versus Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest". New England Journal of Medicine. 384 (24): 2283–2294. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2100591. PMID 34133859.
- ↑ Andersen-Ranberg, Nina C. (29 December 2022). "Haloperidol for the Treatment of Delirium in ICU Patients". New England Journal of Medicine. 387 (26): 2425–2435. doi:10.1056/nejmoa2211868. PMID 36286254.
- ↑ Schjørring, Olav L. (8 April 2021). "Lower or Higher Oxygenation Targets for Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure". New England Journal of Medicine. 384 (14): 1301–1311. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2032510. PMID 33471452.
- ↑ Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Christina M. J. E.; van der Meer, Jos W. M. (27 November 2018). "Decontamination of Oral or Digestive Tract for Patients in the Intensive Care Unit". JAMA. 320 (20): 2081–2083. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.13764. PMID 30347049.
- ↑ Dankiewicz, Joseph (2019). "Targeted hypothermia versus targeted Normothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (TTM2): A randomized clinical trial—Rationale and design". American Heart Journal. 217: 23–21. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2019.06.012. PMID 31473324.
- ↑ Morgan, Matt (10 October 2023). "Jumping the queue to make it smaller". BMJ. 383: 2318. doi:10.1136/bmj.p2318. PMID 37816511.
- ↑ Abbasi, Kamran (2023). "The BMJ's Commission on the Future of the NHS". BMJ. 381: 1000. doi:10.1136/bmj.p1000.
- ↑ "One man's dream of the NHS". Wales Millennium Centre.
- ↑ "Ambassadors - 2wish". www.2wish.org.uk. 2 November 2020.
- ↑ "All for One Health and One Health for all: Intensive care doctor Matt Morgan to headline BVA Congress 2022". BVA.
- ↑ "Matt Morgan talks to Ilora Finlay". Hay Festival. 31 May 2019.
- ↑ "Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2019 - Program Book by Ubud Writers & Readers Festival - Issuu". issuu.com. 8 October 2019.
- ↑ "Authory article collection".
- ↑ "Covid: 'Protecting NHS staff from infection is more important than ever', intensive care unit doctor tells ITV News". ITV News.
- ↑ "The truth about the Second Wave". uncancelled. 28 September 2020.
- ↑ Billen, Andrew (2 Jan 2021). "Matt Morgan interview: the 'worst house party in history' is still raging". The Times.
- ↑ "We have not forgotten about you". Channel 4.
- ↑ "We are still here". ITV.
- ↑ "Cardiff man meets doctor who saved his life". BBC News. 2 July 2020.
- ↑ "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its management, on health and social care in Wales - Sixth Senedd". The Welsh Government Senedd. 5 November 2021.
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