Ronald MortonProfile page
Professor
School of Medicine
BIO
I am a pediatric pulmonolgist afiliated with Norton Children's Medicl group (NCMG) and University of Louisville school of medicine..
I am currently the division chief for the division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Immunolgy, with six faculty members and two nnurse practitioners.
My clinical service involves both inpatient and outpatient pulmonary care and treatment . I attend several outreach clinics each month, including 2 full day pulmonary clinics at St Vincent center foor children, Evansville IN. Our divsion also attends outreach clinics in Bowling Green and at the West Louisville hospital.. Our outreach clinics enable us to serve diverse patients from underserved rural and urban areas throughout the state of Kentucky and Southern Indiana. I also make rounds at a long term Pediatric convalescent Center (Home of Innocents or HOI), which houses over seventy-five highly medically fragile Pediatric residents. I published (in a peer reviewed journal) my experience in the long term ventilator management of this patient population. I also attend several multidisciplinary clinics , including the cerebral palsy clinic sponsored by the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs and muscular dystrophy clinics throughout the Jefferson county/ Louisville area.
DEGREES
- B.S.Wheaton College - Illinois, Wheaton, United States
- M.D.University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Pediatric InternshipWilliam Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, United States
- Pediatric ResidencyWilliam Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, United States
- Pulmonology FellowshipUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, United States