Mark Morton Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand ASM 2018

Mark Morton

Dr Mark Morton is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and did physician training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Modbury Hospital. He became interested in Obstetric Medicine while doing clinics at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Adelaide. This was at a time when Obstetric Medicine was emerging as a specialty. The Queen Victoria maternity hospital merged with the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1995 to become the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Mark Morton is currently working as an Obstetric Physician at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in North Adelaide, and as a General Physician at Modbury Hospital. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and the Director of Physician Education at Modbury Hospital. He was previously the Chair of the RACP Specialist Advisory Committee in General Medicine. He is a foundation member of IMSANZ, and OMGA (Obstetric medicine group of Australasia) which later became SOMANZ. During a second term on the RACP Advanced Training Committee in General and Acute Care Medicine he established a training program for physician trainees wishing to do Obstetric Medicine. His interests are in all aspects of Obstetric Medicine and post graduate training in Obstetric Medicine and General Medicine. He is the immediate past president of SOMANZ and is the Chair of the SOMANZ Training Committee.