Paul Myles is Professor/Director of the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne. He is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, a member of the Research Committee of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, an Editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, an Editorial Consultant for The Lancet, and an editorial board member of three other journals. He has published more than 200 papers, and been awarded more than 22 NHMRC grants totalling more than $25 million. His research interests include patient quality of recovery, avoidance of postoperative complications, and large multicentre trials in anaesthesia.