Professor Malcolm Fisher is well known, highly respected, and fondly regarded in the intensive care world for his work on anaphylaxis and anaesthetics, his passion and humanity, as well as for his irreverent humor, perspicacity, and native cunning. Malcolm was Head of the Intensive Care Unit of Royal North Shore Hospital and Clinical Professor in Intensive Care Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Anaesthesia at the University of Sydney.

He is a past president of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Societies and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS), as well as being a member of numerous professional societies.

He has received a number of awards including the Thomas J. Iberti Memorial Award, the Christer Grenvik Award for international services to critical care medicine, the Alan Gilston Medal, the Inaugural ANZICS Medal, and now the Order of Australia. He is the author of two books and more than 130 scientific articles.