Professor Morgan is a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon.
Professor of Neurosurgery at Macquarie University Sydney.
the Vice President Macquarie University.
Director of Health and Medical Development in Australia.
Professor Morgan trained in Sydney and Mayo Clinic.
He was appointed the first full Professor in Neurosurgery at the University of Sydney in 1998,
the Dean of Medicine at Macquarie University in 2006.
Prof. Morgan has a strong academic commitment to medical education and curriculum
development. He has served on the Board of Neurosurgery for the Neurosurgical Society of
Australasia and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), is currently an examiner in
neurosurgery for the RACS and was appointed Inaugural Dean of Medicine at the Australian
School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University for the purpose of establishing medical
research and postgraduate education in surgery. The medical school is entirely postgraduate
with a current enrolment of 60 PhD students and 4 Masters students (in neurosurgery).
He has operated on more than 700 brain and spine arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and
more than 2,000 aneurysms. He guided the Macquarie University in the establishment of the
first University owned and run Hospital in Australia. He is internationally recognized for
leadership in the field of AVM management.
He was elected to the American Academy of Neurological Surgery in 1999 and has an Honorary
PhD in Neurosurgery awarded by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of
Malaysia), the first PhD to a non-Malaysian in the field of Medicine.
He undertook post-fellowship training in neurovascular surgery at the Mayo Clinic from 1986
to 1989, including clinical and laboratory research work. His laboratory research in AVMs
commenced at the University of Sydney in 1985 and continued through a Fellowship at the
Mayo Clinic under the mentorship of Dr. Sundt Jr, who was a leading neurovascular surgeon and
researcher. This work focused on the effects of AVMs on cerebral blood flow and cerebral
ischaemia and led to his receiving a MD. Prof. Morgan’s research since this time has
incorporated animal research, with an arteriovenous fistula model looking at various aspects of
the physiology including hippocampal brain slice preparations for studies of the effects of
chronic hypoperfusion, as well as other aspects related to cerebral blood flow and learning.
More recently, the collaborative program with Professor Marcus Stoodley has focused on AVM
molecular biology and ultrastructure.
Management of neurovascular conditions has been his focus, and his practice is now
exclusively neurovascular. The prospectively collected databases on aneurysms and AVMs are
the largest such databases in Australia, with over 2000 aneurysm patients and more than 900
patients with AVMs. Prof. Morgan has supervised 9 postgraduate research students and has had
4 students complete PhDs under his supervision. He has also supervised many neurosurgeons in
subspecialty neurovascular training fellowships (including fellows from the USA, UK, Norway,
Finland, Malaysia, Jordan and Kenya).