Arden Morris, MD joined the faculty in 2003 as Assistant Professor in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Dr. Morris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an A.B. in mathematics. She earned her M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1993 and trained in General Surgery residency at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland Oregon. From 2000-2002, Dr. Morris was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington and earned a Masters of Public Health degree. She completed a clinical fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the University of Minnesota in June, 2003. Dr. Morris' primary research interests are focused on (1) understanding and reducing racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in surgical outcomes, (2) measuring non-fatal adverse outcomes to assess the quality of surgical care, and (3) use of patient centered outcome measures in colon and rectal surgery.

Selected publications:
Morris AM, Baldwin LM, Matthews B, Dominitz JA, Barlow WE, Dobie SA, Billingsley KG.  Reoperation as a quality indicator in colorectal surgery: A population-based analysis. Ann Surg 2007;245(1):73-79.

Billingsley KG, Morris AM, Matthews B, Dominitz JA, Dobie SA, Barlow, WE, Warren J, Baldwin LM.  Understanding the volume-outcome relationship: Surgeon and hospital characteristics as predictors of major adverse outcomes following colon cancer surgery. Arch Surg 2007;142:23-31.

Morris AM, Wei Y, Birkmeyer N, Birkmeyer J.  Racial Disparities in Late Survival after Rectal Cancer Surgery. J Am Coll Surg 2006; 203(6):787-794.

Waljee A, Waljee J, Morris AM, Higgins PDR.  Three-fold increased risk of infertility: a meta-analysis of infertility after pouch surgery in ulcerative colitis. Gut 2006;55(11)1575-80.

Lucas FL, Stukel TA, Morris AM, Siewers AE, Birkmeyer JD.  Race and surgical mortality in the United States. Ann Surg. 2006; 243(2):281-6.

Morris AM.  Patient Centered Outcomes after Therapy for Colorectal Cancer. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 2006; 15(1):195-211.

Baxter NN. Virnig DJ. Rothenberger DA. Morris AM. Jessurun J. Virnig BA.  Lymph node evaluation in colorectal cancer patients: a population-based study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2005; 97(3):219-25.

Morris AM. Billingsley KG. Baxter NN. Baldwin LM.  Racial disparities in rectal cancer treatment: a population-based analysis. Archives of Surgery. 2004; 139(2):151-5.