MEDYMOLOGY
ARBOR VITAE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
Dr. David Morton
Advisor
At the University of Utah School of Medicine, Dr. Morton is a Professor of Neurobiology and serves as the Vice-Chair of Medical and Dental Education. He is a curriculum leader, directs multiple courses, and teaches anatomy, physiology, histology, and neuroanatomy to medical, dental, PA, PT, and OT students. Dr. Morton has received numerous teaching awards, including the American Association for Anatomy Henry Gray Distinguished Educator Award, the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award, and the University of Utah School of Medicine Leonard W. Jarcho, MD Distinguished Teaching Award. His research interests and publications focus on the creation and incorporation of active learning activities and the use of cadavers in medicine. Dr. Morton authored multiple textbooks including The Big Picture: Gross Anatomy (Lange, McGraw Hill), The Big Picture: Histology (Lange, McGraw Hill), and Gray’s Dissection Guide for Human Anatomy (Churchill Livingston, Elsevier). His video tutorials on YouTube (The Noted Anatomist) have received over 21 million views with over 400K subscribers. Dr. Morton is an internationally recognized educator and speaker, a Fellow in the American Association for Anatomy, and is a visiting professor to three medical schools in Ghana.
