Michael Kerin Morgan (born 25 November 1956) is an Australian neurosurgeon. Morgan is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University. Morgan is a retired cerebrovascular surgeon at

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, Sydney. Morgan was born in

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, England, to Dr Frank and Sue Morgan of Coogee Sydney, and returned with his family to Australia in 1957. He attended St Patrick's College Strathfield. ''Who's Who in Australia'', Crown Content, 2010. He completed his medical degree at the

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in 1980 and his

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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

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, under the mentorship of Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr. Morgan was appointed Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Sydney in 1998 and Chair of Neurosurgery at Royal North Shore Hospital until 2006. In 2006 he became the inaugural Dean of Medicine at Macquarie University. Morgan was Vice President of health and Medical Development Macquarie University between 2011 and 2015. As a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon in Sydney Morgan managed more than 4,000 intracranial aneurysms and 800 arteriovenous malformations (AVM) of the brain and spine.

Honours

Morgan was inducted into the American Academy of Neurological Surgery in 1999. In 2012, Morgan was awarded an Honorary PhD (Neurosurgery) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for service to UKM. In 2014, Morgan was the Goldwater Memorial Visiting Professor at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix Arizona. In 2014, Morgan was awarded an Officer in the general division (AO) of the Order of Australia "For distinguished service to medicine as a neurovascular surgeon, researcher and educator, as an international leader and mentor, and to professional organisations."News & Events
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Notable publications

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Michael K. 1956 births Living people Australian neurosurgeons Sydney Medical School alumni Academic staff of the University of Sydney Academic staff of Macquarie University English emigrants to Australia People from Royal Tunbridge Wells Medical doctors from Sydney