Wayne J. Morgan, MD, CM, FAAP
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I am a senior clinical scientist and pediatric pulmonologist with research interests including asthma, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary physiology, epidemiology, and pediatric sleep medicine. My skills as a respiratory physiologist have been critical to the success of the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study (TCRS) which is a four-decade long NIH-NHLBI funded birth cohort study of respiratory health from infancy through adulthood. I co-founded the ATS-ERS Committee on lung function in infants and preschool children and have broad experience in collaborative clinical research having been a principal investigator in both the ICAS and ICAC NIAID inner city asthma research networks and lead investigator on two of the core research studies in these networks. I also have extensive experience with multicenter pulmonary function testing having chaired the Equipment and Physiology Committees of the NHLBI CARE, the NIAID ICAC, and NHLBI Asthmanet networks. I was also the pediatric co-chair of the 2012 NHLBI-NIAID Asthma Outcomes workshop. I have also been active in cystic fibrosis clinical research and am founding chair of the national DSMB of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a member of the CF Foundation Registry and Comparative Effectiveness Research Committee,and was founding chair of the Epidemiologic Study of Cystic Fibrosis. I have played a central role in the development and conduct of the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study over the past four decades as a pulmonary physiologist and epidemiologist. I serve on the Executive Committee of the NHLBI-ORBEX primary asthma prevention study. I also practiced sleep medicine for 30 years and have conducted research in the epidemiology of pediatric sleep disorders. I have extensive experience in monitoring clinical trials in my role as Chair of the CFF DSMB which oversees 30-40 clinical trials each year and as an NIH/NHLBI DSMB chair.
