JohnMMortonMDMPH, MHA
General Surgery • New Haven, CTBariatric Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Vice-Chair, Quality and Performance Improvement & Division Chief, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Yale School of Medicine
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Office
1450 Chapel Street MOB 3rd floor, Suite 3631
New Haven, CT 06510Phone+1 203-789-6237- Is this information wrong?
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.
Education & Training
University of North Carolina HospitalsFellowship, Advanced GI Minimally Invasive Surgery, 2001 - 2003
Swedish Medical Center/First HillResidency, Surgery, 1999 - 2001
Tulane UniversityResidency, Surgery, 1993 - 1999
University of Washington School of MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, 1995 - 1997- Tulane University School of MedicineClass of 1993
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2003 - 2025
CT State Medical License 2019 - 2025
WA State Medical License 2016 - 2018
LA State Medical License 1994 - 2003- American Board of Surgery Surgery
- American Board of Obesity Medicine Obesity Medicine
- American Board of Medical QualityQuality
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2010-2018
- Lifetime Achievement Award ASMBS Foundation, 2017
- President American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), 2015
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Collateral Benefit of Systematic Improvement in Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Following a Single Quality Improvement Project for Bleeding.Chao, G., Nadzam, G., Cheung, M., Duffy, A., Ghiassi, S., Morton, J.> ;Obesity Surgery. 2024 Mar 1
- 1 citationsRole of the exercise professional in metabolic and bariatric surgery.Stults-Kolehmainen, M., Bond, D., Richardson, L., Herring, L., Mulone, B., Garber, C., Morton, J., Ghiassi, S., Duffy, A., Balk, E., Abolt, C., Howard, M., Ash, G., Wi...> ;Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2024 Jan 1
- Complete Intra-Gastric Erosion of a Laparoscopic Vertical Gastric Clip.Kevin C Brown, Gabriela Esnaola, John M Morton> ;Obesity Surgery. 2024 Jan 1
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Journal Articles
- Changes in Cerebral Cortical Thickness Related to Weight Loss Following Bariatric SurgeryCara Bohon, John M Morton, Obesity Surgery
Lectures
- Comorbidity Remission Following Intragastric Dual Balloon PlacementStanford, CA - 10/28/2014
- Comorbidity Remission Following Intragastric Dual Balloon PlacementStanford, CA - 6/15/2014
- Comorbidity Remission Following Intragastric Dual Balloon PlacementStanford, CA - 6/15/2014
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Authored Content
- Ny times adolescent bariatric surgeryMay 2019
- Ny times adolescent bariatric surgeryMay 2019
Press Mentions
National Bariatric Surgery Registries: An International ComparisonMarch 30th, 2021- How Obesity and Other Conditions Could Hinder the Effectiveness of a COVID-19 VaccineAugust 12th, 2020
- A Dangerous Mix: High Ozone Levels and ObesityJuly 9th, 2020
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Other Languages
- Spanish
Hospital Affiliations
Yale-New Haven HospitalNew Haven, Connecticut
External Links
- John Morton Media Reelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJaFJCZRtb4
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