Mark Morton Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand ASM 2015

Mark Morton

Dr Mark Morton is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and did physician training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Modbury Hospitals. 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. (WCH) He established the obstetric medicine service at the WCH with Professor Bill Hague. Mark Morton is still working as an Obstetric Physician at the WCH in North Adelaide. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. He also worked as a general physician at Modbury Hospital and after 33 years finished his time there in October 2024. 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 a past president of SOMANZ and was the inaugural Chair of the SOMANZ Training Committee. He was made an Honorary Life Member of SOMANZ in 2025.