Michael K. Morgan

Michael Kerin Morgan, born on 25 November 1956, is an Australian neurosurgeon who specialised in surgery on the blood vessels of the brain and spine. He was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, and returned with his family to Australia in 1957. He took his medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1980 and his M.D. in 1991, finished neurosurgical training in 1986 at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, and then held a fellowship in neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, under Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr. He became Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Sydney in 1998, chaired neurosurgery at Royal North Shore Hospital until 2006, and in that year became the inaugural Dean of Medicine at Macquarie University, where he is Emeritus Professor. His source records that he managed more than 4,000 intracranial aneurysms and 800 arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spine.