Dr Paul A. Baker, MD, MBChB, FANZCA, FEAMS

Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology,
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Honorary Specialist Anaesthetist, Starship Children’s Health (retired 2023).
Immediate Past-President, Society for Airway Management.                            

 

BACKGROUND

  • I was born and educated in Auckland, New Zealand. I completed specialty training in Anaesthesia in 1986 and have been a consultant Anaesthetist at Auckland Hospital and Starship Children’s Hospital since 1986.
  • My special interests are teaching and researching the management of the difficult airway. I currently have 98 publications consisting of 85 original peer reviewed articles, 1 MD thesis, 5 patents and 7 other publications.
  • In 2014 I received a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Auckland. The title of my thesis was “Improving the quality and safety of airway management”.
  • In 1996 I started the Airway Skills course for specialist and trainee anaesthetists, intensivists and emergency medicine practitioners in Auckland. This was the first hands-on airway management course in the region.
  • In 2006 I started development of the ORSIM bronchoscopy simulator. This patented, award-winning simulator is a unique virtual reality, high fidelity simulator. It is designed to improve and assess flexible bronchoscopy skills of the upper and lower airway. The ORSIM is now sold globally (www.orsim.com).
  • I am a member of multiple international airway societies including the Society for Airway Management (SAM), the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) and the Difficult Airway Society (DAS). At these meetings I have lectured and taught flexible bronchoscopy, emergency airway management, education in airway management, airway leads, paediatric and adult airway management.
  • I am the Immediate-Past President of the Society for Airway Management (samhq.com). This is an international, multi-disciplinary, independent society established in 1995 and based in the USA. I have been a member of that society since 1996.
  • I am the founder and past Chairman of the New Zealand Airway Lead Network.
  • I am an Associate Editor for the Pediatric Anesthesia Journal (2019)