William J. Morris, MD

108 Montclair Dr.  Santa Cruz, CA  95060  

cell (408) 314-9338                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

WORK HISTORY

1/05 – current                   Clinician, Palliative Care Consult Service, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA.  Perform inpatient palliative care evaluations.  Supervise nurse palliative care coordinator.  Community education and outreach regarding palliative care issues.

2/11 – current                  Clinician, Outpatient Palliative Care and Supportive Services, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA.  Outpatient palliative care services to ambulatory population:  clinic, home and SNF settings.

3/01 – 2017                       Medical Director, Driftwood Convalescent Home, Santa Cruz, CA. Provide ongoing medical care for 20-50 nursing home patients.  Educate facility staff. Facilitate ongoing relationship with Dominican and community.

10/03 – current                 Medical Director (volunteer), Janus, Santa Cruz, CA.  Supervise methadone maintenance clinic for Santa Cruz County.  Participate in weekly staff meetings and provide clinical oversight.  Educate community on methadone and substance abuse

1/15 – current                   Clinician, Hospice of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA. Provide on call clinical support for hospice teams: weeknights and weekends.

2/10 – current                   Physician Advisor, Utilization Review Department, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA.  Advised utilization review RN case managers regarding inpatient eligibility for admission and ongoing stays.  Educated staff physicians regarding UR issues.

1/1/13 – 1/17                  Clinician, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA.  Clinical management of SNF patients

10/07 – 12/12                   Assistant Chief – Division of Mycobacterial Disease and International Health, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA.  Management of tuberculosis cases.  Clinical evaluation of newly arrived refugees.  Educate medical staff and community regarding refugee health issues.

1/03 – 12/12                     Medical Director and founder, Santa Cruz Primary Care Hepatitis C Center, Santa Cruz, CA. Developed primary care hepatitis C clinical pathway.  Assessment and treatment of patients with hepatitis C infection.  Educate community regarding hepatitis C.

2004 – 12/11                      Assistant Medical Director for Utilization Management, Long-Term Care, Physicians Medical Group, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.                                    Participated in weekly conference calls on skilled nursing facility utilization review.  Clinical evaluation of nursing home patients when indicated.

8/08 – 2/11                         Assistant Medical Director, Hospice of Santa Cruz County, Scotts Valley, CA. Staff interdisciplinary weekly meetings.  Clinical and educational resource for hospice team on end-of-life care issues.  Palliative Care evaluations in home and long-term care settings.

1/02 – 8/08                         Co-Medical Director, VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, Newark, CA.                     Staff interdisciplinary weekly meetings.  Clinical and educational resource for hospice team on end-of-life care issues.  Palliative Care evaluations in home and long-term care settings.

8/03 - 1/04                          Medical Director, 7^th Ave. Center, Santa Cruz, CA.  Admission physical exams and ongoing medical management for inpatient psychiatric facility.

8/04-2/05, 6/01-12/01     Medical Director, Heartland Hospice, Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA.  Staff interdisciplinary weekly meetings.  Clinical and educational resource for     hospice team on end-of-life care issues.  Palliative Care evaluations in home and long-term care settings.

1/00 - 10/02                     Physician, Western Medical Associates, Santa Cruz, CA. Primary care physician for both fee-for-service and managed care patient populations in outpatient and inpatient settings.  Performed both exercise treadmills and flexible sigmoidoscopies.  Initiated ongoing medical assistant continuing education program.

1996 - 2000                      Inpatient Manager, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA.  Supervisory attending physician on medicine wards.  Curriculum development for house staff on inpatient clinical care, cross-cultural issues, utilization management, evidence-based health care delivery.  Developed and staffed Discharge Clinic.  PCM-B Stanford University School of Medicine SCVMC site coordinator 1996-1999.  Member of multidisciplinary “Express Admission Unit” development team.  Medical Liaison, Transitional Care Unit.  Team Leader, SCIOP-initiated team on Pain Management on the Medical and Surgical wards.  Team Leader, community acquired pneumonia clinical guideline.  Utilization Management Advocate, Department of Medicine.

1994 - 1996                         Staff Physician, Santa Clara County Tuberculosis Clinic, San Jose, CA.  Diagnosed and managed tuberculosis cases.  Performed immigration clearance, inpatient consultation on tuberculosis cases.

1990-1991                        Staff Physician, Physicians PromptCare, Baltimore, MD.  Provided urgent care for working class population of suburban Baltimore.

EDUCATION

1992-1994                           Residency in internal medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA.

1990 – 1992                        General Preventive Medicine Residency, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

1990-1991                            MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

1989-1990                            Internship in internal medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.

1984-1989                            MD, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, CA.

1979-1983                            BS in zoology, with honors, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.

MISCELLANEOUS

10/15- current                   Physician Champion, Safe Rx Santa Cruz County; California Health Care Foundation funded Opioid Safety Coalition.

2004                                    Roche Pharmaceutical’s Speakers Bureau, Hepatitis C Physician Advisory Panel participant.

2003 - 2006                        Schering Pharmaceuticals Speakers Bureau.

2001 – 2006                       Member, Santa Cruz County Hepatitis C Task Force, providers subcommittee.

4/04 – 4/06                         Contract hospitalist physician, Santa Cruz Medical Clinic, Santa Cruz, CA.                                                                                                                                                                      

2002                                    Pool physician – Long-Term Care, Kaiser Santa Teresa, San Jose, CA.

1997-1999                          Member, California Refugee Health Workgroup, California Department of Health Services, Division of Communicable Diseases, Refugee Health   Section.

1998-1999                       Volunteer Associate Medical Director, Odyssey Hospice, San Jose, CA.

7/99                                  Educating Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC) training, Chicago, IL.

1997-1998                        Member, Pfizer Anti-Infective Consultants and Investigators Educational Exchange.

LICENSES

California Medical License (G077167) issued 7/22/93  Certified, Internal Medicine, August 1994                                                                                                 Board Certified, Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine, 11/2002, recertified 10/2010, 10/2020                                                                                                          Federal DEA license #BM2588056                                                                                                                      

PUBLICATIONS

1. Morris W, Isseroff R. Degradation of basement membrane matrix proteins by murine keratinocytes. J Invest Derm. 1984; 403.
2. Morris W, Crystal S. Diagnostic patterns in hospital use by an urban homeless population. West J Med. 1989; 151:472-6.
3. Sutter RW, Markowitz LE, Bennetch JM, Morris W, Zell ER, Preblud SR, Measles among the Amish: a comparative study of measles severity in primary and secondary cases in households.  J infect Dis. 1991; 163:12-6.
4. Morris B. Childhood injury prevention.  Am Fam Physician. 1992; 45:2008, 2010.
5. Morris W, Steinhoff MC, Russell PK. Potential of polymer microencapsulation technology for vaccine innovation. Vaccine. 1994; 12:5-11.
6. Morris W, Fainstat M, Robinson T, Hoo R. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in California. West J Med. 1994; 161:418-21.
7. Bassiri AG, Morris W, Kirsch CM. Eosinophilic tuberculous pleural effusion. West J Med. 1997; 166:277-9.
8. Morris W, Knauer CM. Cardiopulmonary manifestations of schistosomiasis. Sem Resp Infec. 1997; 12:159-70.
9. Morris W, Eng J. The real impact of hospitalists. Postgrad Med. 1999; 106:21-2, 25.                                                                                                         10. Morris W. Wither continuity of care. New Engl J Med. 1999; 341:850-1.                                                                                                                                 11. Kearns PJ, Wang CC, Morris WJ, Low DG, Deacon AS, Chan SY, Jensen WA. Hospital care by hospital-based and clinic –based faculty; a prospective, controlled trial.   Arch Int Med. 2001. 235-41.