Nicholas A. Morris, MD

Education

2003: B.A., Psychology, Yale College (Magna Cum Laude), New Haven, CT

2005: Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2010: M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Post Graduate Training

2010–2011: Internship, Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

2011–2014: Residency, Neurology, Partners Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

2014–2016: Fellowship, Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Medical Center / Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

2017: Comprehensive Instructor Workshop, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, MA

2019: Advanced Instructor Course, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, MA

2021–2022: American Academy of Neurology Transforming Leaders Program

Dr. Morris received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School followed by a neurology residency in the Mass General Brigham Neurology program. Dr. Morris completed his training with a fellowship in neurocritical care at Columbia University / Weill Cornell Medical College.  He has received comprehensive and advanced training in healthcare simulation from the Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) in Boston, MA.  He currently is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology and the Program in Trauma at the University of Maryland School of Medicine where he serves as Program Director for the fellowship in neurocritical care and the Associate Director of the Shock Trauma Simulation Center.  He serves on the editorial boards of Neurology and Neurocritical Care.  He has received grant support from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Academy of Neurology to fund simulation-based research which has been published in Resuscitation Plus, Neurocritical Care, Neurology: Education, and Neurology.  His other research interests include pain after subarachnoid hemorrhage and disparities in emergency neurology care delivery.

Multimodality Monitoring, Medical Simulation, Assessment, Pain and Patient-Centered Outcomes after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Brain-Heart Connection, Disparities in Emergency Neurology Care Delivery, Triage

May T, Bressler E, Cash R, Guyette F, Lin S, Morris NA, Panchal A, Perrin S, Vogelson M, Yeung J, Elmer J. Management of patients with cardiac arrest requiring interfacility transport. 2024 Oct 29;150(18):e316-e327.

Morris NA, Simard JM, Chaturvedi, S. Surgical Management for Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 2024 Aug 27;103(4):e209714.

Kalasapudi L, Williamson S, Shipper AG, Motta M, Esenwa C, Otite F, Chaturvedi S, Morris, NA. A scoping review of racial, ethnic, and sex disparities in the diagnosis and management of hemorrhagic stroke. Neurology. 2023 Jul;101(3):e267-e276.

Morris NA, Wang Y, Felix RB, Rao A, Arnold S, Khalid M, Armahizer MJ, Murthi SB, Colloca L.  Adjunctive virtual reality pain relief following traumatic injury: a proof-of-concept, within-person randomized trial. Pain. 2023 Sep;164(9):2122-2129.

Bosel J, Niesen WD, Salih F, Morris NA, Ragland J, Gough B, Schneider H, Neumann JO, Hwang D, Kantamneni P, James ML, Freeman WE, Rajajee V, Rao CV, Nair D, Benner L, Meis J, Klose C, Kieser M, Schonenberger S, Seder DB, for the SETPOINT 2 and the IGNITE study groups. Early or standard tracheostomy in ventilated patients with severe  JAMA. 2022 May;327(19):1899-1909. PMID: 35506515.

Morris NA, Mazzeffi M, McArdle P, May TL, Waldrop G, Perman SM, Burke JF, Bradley SM, Agarwal S, Figueroa JF, Badjatia N, and the CARES Surveillance Group. Hispanic/Latino patients lack access to hospitals with targeted temperature management programs following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021;0:e017773.

Pergakis MB, Chang WW, Tabatabai A, Phipps MS, Neustein B, Podell JE, Parikh G, Badjatia N, Motta M, Lerner DP, Morris NA. Simulation-based assessment of trainees’ performance managing acute ischemic stroke. Neurology.  2021 October;97(24):e2414-e2422.

Morris NA, Chang WT, Tabatabai A, Gutierrez CA, Phipps MS, Lerner D, Bates OJ, Tisherman SA.  Development of neurological emergency simulations for assessment: content evidence and response process.  Neurocritical Care. 2021 Oct;35(2):389-396. 

Jaffa MN, Podell JE, Smith MC, Foroutan BS, Kardon A, Chang WT, Motta M, Parikh G, Sheth KM, Badjatia N, Armahizer MJ, Simard JM, Morris NA.  Association of refractory pain in the acute phase after subarachnoid hemorrhage with continued outpatient opioid use.  Neurology.  2021 May;96(19): e2355-e2362.