Michael K. Morgan

Michael Kerin Morgan AO is an Australian neurosurgeon. He is a cerebrovascular surgeon at Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney.^[1][2]

Morgan was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, and emigrated with his family to Australia in 1957.^[3] He completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1980 and his M.D. in 1991. Following completion of his neurosurgical training in 1986 at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Morgan undertook a Fellowship in Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, under the mentorship of Thoralf M. Sundt.^[1] Morgan was appointed Professor of Neurosurgery at The University of Sydney in 1998 and Chair of Neurosurgery at Royal North Shore Hospital until 2006.^[1] In 2006 he became the inaugural Dean of Medicine at Macquarie University;^[1] he was succeeded as Dean by Prof. Simon Foote in February 2012,^[4] and has stayed on as a clinician and researcher.

Honours

Michael Morgan was inducted into the American Academy of Neurological Surgery in 1999. In 2014 Morgan was awarded an officer in the general division (AO) of the Order of Australia for "For distinguished service to medicine as a neurovascular surgeon, researcher and educator, as an international leader and mentor, and to professional organisations." ^[5]

Notable publications

Morgan's most cited publications (> 100 citations each) are:

• Piepgras, D. G.; Morgan, M. K.; Sundt, T. M.; Yanagihara, T.; Mussman, L. M. (1988). "Intracerebral hemorrhage after carotid endarterectomy". Journal of Neurosurgery 68 (4): 532–6. doi:10.3171/jns.1988.68.4.0532. PMID 3351580. 
• Sekhon LH, Morgan MK, Sorby W, Grinnell V (August 1998). "Combined endovascular stent implantation and endosaccular coil placement for the treatment of a wide-necked vertebral artery aneurysm: technical case report". Neurosurgery 43 (2): 380–3; discussion 384. PMID 9696096. Retrieved 2011-01-07. 
• Johnston IH, Whittle IR, Besser M, Morgan MK (May 1987). "Vein of Galen malformation: diagnosis and management". Neurosurgery 20 (5): 747–58. doi:10.1227/00006123-198705000-00013. PMID 3601022.  |accessdate= requires |url= (help)

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