Wayne J. Morgan, MD

Associate Director, Asthma / Airway Disease Research Center
Program Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship
Professor, Pediatrics
Professor, Physiology
Arizona Elks Foundation Chair for Statewide Pediatric Research
Member of the Graduate Faculty

Dr. Morgan is nationally recognized for his expertise as a respiratory physiologist and has helped to develop innovative lung function testing methods for infants and young children. He is a core member of the research team conducting the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study, a longitudinal study of childhood respiratory health from infancy through late adolescence. It is unique in this country and has substantively added to our understanding of risk factors for asthma and clarified the phenotypes of wheezing illness in young children. Dr. Morgan is also an accomplished educator and has received several teaching awards for his skills in teaching respiratory physiology, clinical pediatrics and pediatric pulmonary medicine. He has been a principal investigator in the NIAID-funded Inner City Asthma programs for the past 15 years.

Degree(s)

  • MD: McGill University, 1976
Residency
Montreal Children’s Hospital, 1980
Fellowship
Arizona Health Sciences Center Department of Pediatrics, Clinical Pulmonary, 1981
Arizona Health Sciences Center, Research Fellow, 1982
Board Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics – Pediatric Pulmonology
Honors and Awards
College of Medicine Faculty Mentoring Awards, 2019
Clinical Specialties
Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Pulmonology/Allergy and Immunology
Research Interests

early life determinants of asthma and COPD, asthma and cystic fibrosis epidemiology and pathophysiology, primary asthma prevention, clinical trials in pediatric asthma and cystic fibrosis, pulmonary physiology in clinical trials and epidemiology