Raymond F. Morgan, MD, Milton T. Edgerton Professor and Chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Virginia, is recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award. 

This award honors alumni "whose distinguished careers and unselfish contributions to society have enhanced the prestige of West Virginia University School of Medicine and have helped raise the quality of health care."

Dr. Morgan's clinical focus is on wound healing and microcirculation.  He has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific articles and chapters.  As program director of Plastic Surgery at UVA, he has developed plastic surgery residency training programs in both an independent and an integrated model.  The integrated model, which begins at the PG-1 level, was one of the first to be established in the United States, and has served as a template for the development of training programs at other universities.  Dr. Morgan also developed a fellowship in Surgery of the Hand, a fully-integrated Plastic Surgery-Orthopedic Surgery program.

Dr. Morgan is president-elect of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has served in leadership positions in numerous professional associations.

He serves the international medical community as a member of the board of trustees of Physicians for Peace, a non-profit organization founded by Charles E. Horton, MD, Norfolk, Virginia, which provides medical care and education for health care providers throughout the Middle East.  

Dr. Morgan completed residencies in general surgery and plastic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a fellowship in Surgery of the Hand at the Raymond M. Curtis National Hand Surgery Center in Baltimore, Maryland.  He then joined the Plastic Surgery Department at the University of Virginia where he has served as a member of the University Faculty Senate, the Health Services Foundation Board of Directors, and is a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery.  In 1995, the UVA Board of Visitors established the Raymond F. Morgan Professorship in Plastic Surgery.

In addition to his medical degree at West Virginia University, Dr. Morgan received his undergraduate degree, an MEd in higher education, and a DMD in Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.  He and his wife, Sue Ann, have three children, Ryan, Alexander, and Elizabeth.