JohnMMortonMDMPH, MHA

Summary

• Dr. John Morton serves as the inaugural Vice-Chair for Quality and Division Chief for Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. He received BS, MD, and MPH degrees from Tulane University and completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship at University of WA along with an advanced laparoscopic fellowship at UNC. He served on Capitol Hill as Senator Bill Frist’s Health Policy Intern. He has published over 170 articles & 18 book chapters with over 300 national and international presentations. He led 5 site FDA Pivotal Trials and has received funding from NIH and Moore Foundation. He serves as editor of 5 books and he has received 28 research awards from 5 different surgical societies. As Chief of Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery and Director of the BMI Clinic and Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship at Stanford University 2003-2019, Dr. Morton received 5 teaching awards in 8 years including the Arthur Bloomfield Clinical Teacher of the Year & Henry J. Kaiser Teaching Award. As Director of Surgical Quality at Stanford 2007-2013, Dr. Morton helped improve the Department of Surgery’s Vizient annual ranking from 24/98 to 1/98 and their Annual NSQIP mortality ranking from Average to Exemplary. He is the national Chair of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program for 850 hospitals. From 2014-5, he was elected President of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. In 2017, he received the highest honor accorded to a bariatric surgeon with the ASMBS Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement. He was named Castle Connolly’s Physician of the Year for Clinical Excellence in 2012. Dr. Morton also founded the first obesity related Political Action Committee, Obesity PAC and is Chair of the National Obesity Collaborative Care Summit for 35 Different Medical Societies. He was selected as Co-Chair and Chair for Obesity Week 2017 and 2018.