Michael H. Morgan, MD

I am the current Assistant Director of the Global Health Fellowship through the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah. My medical school and post-graduate training in Emergency Medicine, and fellowship training in global health were done at the University of Utah. My primary foci are medical education, simulation training, development and support of Emergency Medicine training programs in developing countries, and the care of domestic underserved populations. I have played a large role in resident and medical student education both at the University of Utah and in Vietnam. This has been done through countless didactic lectures, workshops, and simulation sessions. Since 2017 I have been on faculty with the University of Utah School of Medicine as a lead medical simulation facilitator. In that role I am responsible for providing didactics and creating and running simulation sessions for 4^th year medical students on a required Critical Care rotation. In 2019 I was made the Director of Medical Simulation through the Division of Emergency Medicine and run high-fidelity and low-fidelity medical simulation for emergency medicine residents, medical students, nurses, and EMTs. I am looking at ways to expand simulation training to our international educational efforts.

In addition to my educational activities, I am a clinician and the Director of Educational Outreach at the 4^thStreet Clinic – Salt Lake’s largest homeless clinic. I have created a popular and successful resident elective in which emergency medicine, internal medicine, and med/peds residents rotate and work at the clinic. I have opened up moonlighting opportunities for emergency medicine residents and have also established the homeless clinic as a regular rotation site for internal medicine residents as part of their longitudinal outpatient experience. Starting in 2021 I will be the participating in the street medicine program at the 4th Street Clinic.

My career has been defined by a commitment to humanism and the education and empowerment of underserved individuals in both the developing and developed world. From 2004 to 2008 I served as founder and director of the Utah Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights and partnered with the Utah YWCA to raise awareness of domestic violence among college and high school students. During that same period I was fortunate to work closely with the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute to establish a medical clinic on their reservation in rural Ibapah, Utah. My work with domestic underserved populations led work with closely with Utah's refugee, migrant, and homeless populations and in 2009 I established a Student Run Clinic with the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Maliheh Free Clinic. As a medical student I helped organize the first Global Health conference held at the University and I was awarded the 2013 Gold Humanism in Medicine award and was recognized with honors for exceptional contributions to the School of Medicine's community service and outreach programs.