Clinician-Scientist
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Shaun Morris is a Clinician-Scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences and the Centre for Global Child Health at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics is cross appointed to the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Morris completed his medical degree at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and his Master's in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. His clinical training in pediatrics and infectious diseases was at SickKids and his training in tropical medicine was at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Peru.
Dr. Morris’ major global and domestic research focuses include reducing childhood mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and neonatal sepsis. He the SickKids lead investigator for multiple national and international research and surveillance networks including IMPACT (vaccine preventable diseases), GeoSentinel (travel acquired infections), Special Immunization Clinic Network (immunization in special hosts), and the Canadian Pediatric Surveillance Program. In addition to Canada, he currently conducts trials and research in South Asia and East Africa.
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Friday, October 23, 2020
2:45pm – 4:00pm EDT