Wayne Morgan

Education:

• MD, McGill University, 1976

Dr. Morgan is a pediatric pulmonologist and clinical scientist with research interests including asthma, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary physiology, and epidemiology. His skills as a respiratory physiologist have been central to the success of the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study (TCRS) which is a four-decade long NIH-NHLBI funded birth cohort study of respiratory health from infancy through adulthood. He has broad experience in collaborative clinical research having been a principal investigator in both the ICAS and ICAC NIAID inner city asthma research networks and lead investigator on two of the core clinical trials in these networks. He has extensive experience with multicenter pulmonary function testing, having chaired the Equipment and Physiology Committees of the NHLBI CARE, the NIAID ICAC, and NHLBI Asthmanet networks. Dr. Morgan currently serves on the Executive Committee of the NHLBI-ORBEX primary asthma prevention study. He has also been active in cystic fibrosis clinical research and is founding chair of the national Cystic Fibrosis Foundation DSMB, a member of the CF Foundation Registry and Comparative Effectiveness Research Committee, and was founding chair of the Epidemiologic Study of Cystic Fibrosis. Finally, he conducted outreach pediatric pulmonary clinics on the Navajo Nation for almost four decades. This led to his interest in indoor air pollution and the impact of wood and coal heating on respiratory illnesses in children. He is Co-PI of the Healthy Hooghans pilot study of an air filtering system to reduce indoor PM2.5 pollution and improve asthma symptoms and outcomes.  This study was funded by a SWEHSC pilot grant.

Environmental research interests - The impact of indoor air pollution on children’s respiratory health; the development of inexpensive methodologies to reduce pollution caused by indoor heating with wood or coal