
Christopher Morley, PhD, MA
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cancer Prevention/Screening/Communication, Health Disparities, Medical Sociology, Med Education, Ethics, COVID-19, Behavior
EDUCATION INTERESTS
Health Behavior, Medical Social Sciences, Policy & Ethics, Public Health, Primary Care, Social Determinants, Research Methods
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RESEARCH ABSTRACT
Christopher P. Morley, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, where he also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Family Medicine, as well as in the Department of and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Morley is a medical social scientist, and completed his PhD in Social Science, and a Master of Arts in Public Administration (with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Health Services Management and Policy, from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He has been at Upstate Medical University since 2001. Dr. Morley has held a number of previous roles and positions at Upstate, notably including service as the Director of Research Development, and then Vice-Chair for Research, in the Department of Family Medicine, from 2007-2018, and as the Principal Research Support Specialist from 2001-2007 for a cluster of psychiatric genetic studies in the Department of Psychiatry. Prior to joining Upstate, Dr. Morley worked in cancer communication and tobacco control in the Department of Cancer Prevention, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, in Buffalo, NY.
Dr. Morley's principle research interests are in medical education and health workforce development, health disparities, behavioral health in primary care settings, ethics, and primary care practice improvement. He was also very active the institutional and regional responses to COVID-19, and has worked in a variety of areas related to cancer (cancer communication, screening, tobacco control). He also serves as a course director and a core faculty member in the Upstate Public Health/MPH program. He is involved in Upstate's Cancer Center through the Cancer Center Research Committee, and serves as the Chair of Upstate's Institutional Review Board, as well as chair of the Norton College of Medicine Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee. Dr. Morley has led or co-led grants from HRSA, NIMH, the New York State Health Foundation, the New York State Department of Health, and a variety of other sources. He presently leads a grant from the Associated Medical Schools of NYS to fund the Public Health Scholars program, designed to bring disadvantaged students into medicine via a special pathway through public health. In addition to local roles, Dr. Morley is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Peer-reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research (PRiMER), an online medical education journal sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Disability and Health Journal and the Journal of Patient-Centered Research & Reviews. He is also an appointed member of the national Academic Family Medicine Advocacy Committee, and serves as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.
COVID-19
- COVID-19 symptom load as a risk factor for chronic pain: A national cross-sectional study.
- Impact of COVID-19 on American Family Physicians' Intent to Retreat from Clinical Care
- Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Attitudes About Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination After Emergency Use Authorization
- The United States COVID-19 Forecast Hub dataset
- Rapid Antigen Test Sensitivity for Asymptomatic COVID-19 Screening
- Training Family Medicine Residents to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey of Program Directors
- Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States
- Relationship Between COVID-19 Cases and Vaccination Rates in New York State Counties
- Social Distancing Metrics and Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Rates: Associations Between Mobile Telephone Data Tracking and R
Cancer Prevention & Tobacco Control
- Improving Cancer Screening Rates in Primary Care via Practice Facilitation and Academic Detailing: A Multi-PBRN Quality Improvement Project
- Appropriateness of fecal immunochemical testing utilization for colorectal cancAppropriateness of fecal immunochemical testing utilization for colorectal cancer screening at an academic centerer screening at an academic center
- Improving Cancer Screening Rates in Primary Care via Practice Facilitation and Academic Detailing: A Multi-PBRN Quality Improvement Project
- Impact of COVID-19 on Screening Rates for Colorectal, Breast, and Cervical Cancer: Practice Feedback From a Quality Improvement Project in Primary Care
- Increasing Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancer Screenings: A Qualitative Assessment of Barriers and Promoters in Safety-Net Practices
- Qualitative insights into how men with low-risk prostate cancer choosing active surveillance negotiate stress and uncertainty
- Cognitive and Affective Representations of Active Surveillance as a Treatment Option for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer
- The politics of tobacco regulation.
- State-level tobacco control and adult smoking rate in the United States: an ecological analysis of structural factors
- Marketing to America's youth: evidence from corporate documents
- Tobacco Institute lobbying at the state and local levels of government in the 1990s
- Tax, price and cigarette smoking: evidence from the tobacco documents and implications for tobacco company marketing strategies
- Failed promises of the cigarette industry and its effect on consumer misperceptions about the health risks of smoking
- The cigarette pack as image: new evidence from tobacco industry documents
Medical & Public Health Education/Training
- Medical School Characteristics, Policies, and Practices That Support Primary Care Specialty Choice: A Scoping Review of 5 Decades of Research
- Burnout and Depression in MS1 and MS3 Years: A Comparison of Cohorts at One Medical School.
- Essential Public Health Competencies for Medical Students: Establishing a Consensus in Family Medicine.
- The Relationship Between the Social Mission Content of Medical School Mission Statements and Minority Faculty Representation Among Faculty and Senior Leadership
- US Fourth-Year Medical Students: Diabetes Knowledge and Confidence Dissonance
- Medical School Characteristics, Policies, and Practices That Support Primary Care Specialty Choice: A Scoping Review of 5 Decades of Research
- See special issue on Medical Student/Primary Care Choice in Family Medicine
- Trends in US Medical School Contributions to the Family Physician Workforce: 2018 Update From the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Graduating Medical Student Perspectives on Factors Influencing Specialty Choice An AAFP National Survey
- RU4PC? Texting to Quantify Feedback About Primary Care and Its Relationship With Student Career Interest
- The social mission in medical school mission statements: associations with graduate outcomes
- Teaching cross-cultural communication skills online: a multi-method evaluation
- The extent and methods of public health instruction in family medicine clerkships
- A qualitative study of medical students in a rural track: views on eventual rural practice
- Pilot evaluation of a biopsychosocial integrated standardized patient examination in a family medicine clerkship
Practice-Based Research
- Longitudinal Evaluation of a Deprescribing Protocol in Skilled Nursing Facilities.
- Interconception care during well-child visits by family physicians in the United States: A cross-sectional study
- Satisfaction and Concerns with Telemedicine Endocrine Care of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
- Diabetes Education and Support Tele-Visit Needs Differ in Duration, Content, and Satisfaction in Older Versus Younger Adults
- Perceived Burdens and Benefits Associated With Continuous Glucose Monitor Use in Type 1 Diabetes Across the Lifespan
Research Policy and Training
- Federal Research Funding for Family Medicine: Highly Concentrated, with Decreasing New Investigator Awards
- Lost in Translation: NIH Funding for Family Medicine Research Remains Limited
- The Impact of Administrative Academic Units (AAU) Grants on the Family Medicine Research Enterprise in the United States
- What to learn and how to teach it: five years of pre-meetings for training directors in psychiatry
Mental Health & Psychiatric Genetics
- The genomic psychiatry cohort: partners in discovery
- The effects of patient characteristics on ADHD diagnosis and treatment: a factorial study of family physicians
- Effect of stimulants on height and weight: a review of the literature
- Family, twin, adoption, and molecular genetic studies of juvenile bipolar disorder
- Genome-wide scan in Portuguese Island families identifies 5q31-5q35 as a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia and psychosis
- Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
- Contributions of common genetic variants to risk of schizophrenia among individuals of African and Latino ancestry
- Disparities in ADHD assessment, diagnosis, and treatment
Ethics, Theory & Policy
- Analysis of the association between millennium development goals 4 & 5 and the physician workforce across international economic strata.
- Pediatric Prevention: General Prevention
- Debate: Limitations on universality: the "right to health" and the necessity of legal nationality
- Children, ADHD, and citizenship
For a full list of publications, please see either Dr. Morley's PubMed Bibliography or his Google Scholar page.