Ronald L Morton, MD

Ronald L. Morton, M.D., is the interim division chief for the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and a professor pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Morton serves as director of the Norton Children’s Cystic Fibrosis Program and the pediatric home ventilator program at the Pediatric Convalescent Center, Home of the Innocents. Additionally, he is a staff physician at Norton Children’s Hospital. In 2005, Dr. Morton received the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Excellence in Research Award and the UofL School of Medicine Graduating Resident Class of 2005 Child Advocacy Award. In 2006, he received the UofL School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for embodying compassion and sensitivity in the delivery of care to patients and their family members. He chose to become a physician based on his faith to serve others, and specifically elected pulmonary medicine because of his desire to work with medically fragile or complex children and their families. Dr. Morton has presented his research at many national meetings and published more than 70 articles and abstracts relating to pulmonary disease, asthma and cystic fibrosis. Prior to coming to Louisville, Dr. Morton served as staff pediatrician for four years and as chief of the Pediatric Clinic for two years at the Lyster US Army Hospital at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He is a member of the American Thoracic Society and American College of Chest Physicians. When he’s not with his patients, he enjoys spending time with family, hiking, biking, reading biographies, and bird watching.