John Morton

Honors and Awards

• GI Advisory Board, United HealthCare (2013)
• America's Top Doctors, Castle-Connolly (2013)
• Appointed Secretary-Treasurer and Elected Executive Council, ASMBS (2012)
• Top 5 Paper: National Comparisions of Bariatric Surgery Outcomes: FIndings from the BOLD Database, ASMBS (2012)
• Top 5 Poster: Are There Differences in Outcomes Based On Insurance Status, ASMBS (2012)
• Poster of Distinction: National Bariatric Surgery Outcomes for Age>65: BOLD Database, ASMBS (2012)
• Expert Panel, Citizens Panel of Community Forum Project, AHRQ (2012)
• National Physician of the Year for Clinical Excellence, Castle Connolly Top Doctors (2012)
• Excellence in Teaching, Stanford School of Medicine (2012)
• America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly (2012)
• America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly (2011)
• Healthcare-Associated Infection Expert Panel, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2011)
• Henry J. Kaiser Clinical Teaching Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2011)
• Advisory Panel, Campaign for Effective Patient Care (2011)
• Most Newsworthy Abstract (only 5 of 800 chosen), Digestive Diseases Week (2011)
• ACS Delegate, Consensus Standards Approval Committee, National Quality Forum (2011)
• Invited Address, Drugs, Behavior or Surgery: Place Your Bets…”, The Obesity Society (2011)
• Keynote Address, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Surgical Association (2011)
• Invited Address, Translating Data into Results, Florida Surgical Care Initiative (Feb 2011)
• ACS Delegate, Surgical Steering Committee, National Quality Forum (2011)
• Invited Address, NSQIP Town Hall, American College of Surgeons (2010)
• Invited Address, Bariatric Surgery: Which Procedure Do You Recommend, The Obesity Society (2010)
• Excellence in Teaching, Stanford School of Medicine Student Body (2010)
• Elected Member, Society for University Surgeons (2010)
• Metric Magic: Creating Synergy between Indicators, Priorities and Mandates, National Patient safety Foundation (2010)
• Invited Address, Implementing Surgical Quality Innovation at the Bedside, American College for Medical Quality (2010)
• Chair, NSQIP Surgical Champions Forum, American College of Surgeons (2009)
• America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly (2009)
• Invited Address, Weighing in on Improving Bariatric Surgery, UK Bariatric Surgery Annual Meeting, Chichester, England (2009)
• Outstanding Abstract, Improvement in Adolescent Cardiac Risk Factors after Gastric Bypass, International Federation of Surgery for Obesity (August 2009)
• Invited Address, Utilizing Patient Safety Indicators in Quality Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2009)
• Invited Address, The Role of the Surgical Champion, NSQIP, American College of Surgeons (2009)
• Ethan Sims Young Investigator Finalist Award, Obesity Society (2009)
• Excellence in Teaching, Stanford School of Medicine (2009)
• Best Student Poster, Stanford School of Medicine Research Symposium (2009)
• Most Newsworthy Abstract (only 5 of 800 chosen), Digestive Diseases Week (2009)
• Expert Panel on Bariatric Surgery for BMI< 35, RAND (2009)
• Magisterial Address, 2009 Annual Meeting, Asociación Mexicana de Cirugía General y el Colegio Americano de Cirujanos (2009)
• Most Newsworthy Abstract (only 5 of 800 chosen), Digestive Diseases Week (2008)
• President-Elect, California Chapter of the American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons (2008)
• Best Student Research Poster, Stanford University School of Medicine (2008)
• Arthur L. Bloomfield Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine (2008)
• Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt (2008)
• Young Investigator of the Year, SAGES (2008)
• Visiting Professor, Henry Ford Hospitals (2007)
• Visiting Professor, St.Antonius Hospitals, Maastricht, Holland (2007)
• Best Fellow Presentation, SAGES, Las Vegas, NV (2007)
• Expert Panel on Birth Outcomes after Bariatric Surgery, RAND (2007)
• Gastric Bypass and Cardiac Risk Factors: Is the Way to Heart Through the Stomach?, Inaugural Conference on Obesity Diabetes and Hypertension, Berlin, Germany (2006)
• Poster of Distinction, SAGES, Las Vegas, NV (2006)
• Best Poster Award (170 posters presented), International Federation of Surgery for Obesity, Sydney, Australia (2006)
• Ronald H.Fegelman Memorial Lecturer, Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, OH (2006)
• Excellence in Teaching, Stanford School of Medicine (2005)
• Expert Panel on Bariatric Surgery Quality Indicators, RAND (May 2004)