Beverly C. Morgan

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Professor, Pediatrics Cardiology, Pediatrics
School of Medicine
M.D.
Phone: (714) 456-6483, 7524
Fax: (714) 456-8466
Email: bcmorgan@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
City Tower, Suite 800
101 The City Drive
Mail Code: 4482
Orange, CA 92668
Research Interests
Pediatrics Cardiology; Congenital Heart Disease; Hypertension in Children; Lipids; Electrophysiology; Medical Education (General Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology); National Health Care; Physician Manpower
Academic Distinctions
Alpha Omega Alpha
M.D. cum laude
Mosby Scholarship Award, Duke University
Howland Award, Duke University
Biographical Record; Who's Who in America 1982-
Brenneman Lecturer: Los Angeles Pediatric Society, 1982
Publications
Morgan BC, Griffiths SP, Blumenthal S: Ventricular septal defect. I. Congestive heart failure in infancy. Pediatrics 25:54-62, Jan 1960.

Jacobson JH, II, Morgan BC, Andersen DH, Humphreys GH, II: Aberrant left pulmonary artery. J Thorac Cardiov Surg 39:602-612, May 1960.

Blumenthal S, Griffiths SP, Morgan BC: Bacterial endocarditis in children with heart disease. Pediatrics 26:933-1017, Dec 1960.

Ellis K, Morgan BC, Blumenthal S, Andersen DH: Congenitally corrected transposition of the great vessels. Radiology 79:35-50, July 1962.

LePere RH, Kohler CM, Morgan BC, Klinger P: Plastic prostheses in systemic-pulmonary artery shunts. JAMA 1963:283-285, Jan 1963.

Morgan BC: Cardiac complications of diptheria. Pediatrics 32:549-557, Oct 1963.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, McGough GA: Effect of position on leg volume: Case against the Trendelenburg position. JAMA 1987:1024-1026, Mar 1964.

Griffiths SP, Blumenthal S, Jameson AG, Ellis K, Morgan BC, Malm JR: Ventricular septal defect. Amer J Med 37:23-35, July 1964.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, Baum D, Merendino KA; Reassessment of operative indication for moderate congenital aortic stenosis. J Thorac Cardiov Surg 49:150-158, 1965.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, Bloom RS, Flyer DC: A clinical profile of paroxysmal hyperpnea in cyanotic congenital heart disease. Circulation 31:66-99, Jan 1965.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL: Physiologic studies of paroxysmal hyperpnea in cyanotic congenital heart disease. Circulation 31:70-76, Jan 1965.

Morgan BC, Bloom RS, Guntheroth WG: Cardiac arrhythmias in premature infants. Pediatrics 35:658-661, April 1965.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, Dillard DH: The relationship of pericardial to pleural pressure during quiet respiration and in cardiac tamponade. Circulation Res 16:493-498, June 1965.

Morgan BC: Advances in the management of infants with congenital heart disease. J Amer Med Wom assn 20:538-541, June 1965.

Morgan BC, Deane PG, Guntheroth WG: Long term continuous electrocardiographic monitoring in pediatric patients. Pediatrics 36:792-797, Nov 1965.

Morgan BC, Stacy GS, Dillard DH: Pulmonary valvular and infundibular atresia. Amer J Cardiol 16:746-749, Nov 1965.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Cardiac arrhythmias in normal newborns. J Pediatrics 67:1199-1202, Dec 1965.

Lintermans JP, Kaplan EL, Morgan BC, Baum D, Guntheroth WG: Infarction patterns in endocardial fibroelastosis. Circulation 33:202-208, Feb 1966.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, Figley MM, Dillard DH, Merendino KA; Operable congenital heart disease. Ped Clin N Amer 13:105-219, Feb 1966.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, Dillard DH: The effect of blood volume on venous pressure in cardiac tamponade. J Thorac Cardiov Surg 51:5675-578, Feb 1966.

Morgan BC, Abel FL, Mullins GL, Guntheroth WG: Flow patterns in the cavae, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein and aorta in intact dogs. Amer J Physiol 210:903-909, April 1966.

Morgan BC, Dillard DH, Guntheroth WG: Effect of cardiac and respiratory cycles on pulmonary vein flow, pressure and diameter. J Appl Physiol 21:1276-1280, July 1966.

Morgan BC, Martin WE, Hornbein TF, Crawford EW, Guntheroth WG: Hemodynamic effects of intermittent positive pressure respiration. Anesthesiology 27:584-590, Sept-Oct 1966.

Morgan BC, Baum D, Guntheroth WG: Medical management of congenital heart disease. Northwest Med 65:827-831, Oct 1966.

Morgan BC: Cardiac problems in adolescents. Ped Digest 8:61-69, Oct 1966.

Dillard DH, Mohri H, Hessel EA, II, Anderson HN, Nelson RH, Crawford EW, Morgan BC, Winterscheid LC, Merendino KA: Correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in infants utilizing deep hypothermia with total circulatory arrest. Circulation (Suppl 1) 35-36:105-110, April 1967.

Winterscheid LC, Morgan BC: The congenitally malformed: Indications for surgical repair of congenital heart disease. Northwest Med 66:249-257, March 1967.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL: Effect of respiration on venous return and stroke volume in tamponade (pulsus paradoxus). Circulation Res 20:381-390, April 1967.

Morgan BC, Crawford EW, Hornbein TF, Martin WE, Guntheroth WG: Hemodynamic effects of changes in arterial carbon dioxide during intermittent positive pressure ventilation. Anesthesiology 28:866-873, Sept-Oct 1967.

Church SC, Morgan BC, Oliver TK, Guntheroth WG: Cardiac arrhythmias in premature infants: An indication of autonomic immaturing? J Peds 7:542-546, Oct 1967.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Harbison JA, Mullins GL: Raynaud's disease in children. Circulation 36:724-729, Nov 1967.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Lintermans JP: Postural effect on lobar pulmonary and systemic flow: A flowmeter study in dogs. J Appl Physiol 23:850-864, Dec 1967.

Morgan BC, Crawford EW, Winterschied LC, Guntheroth WG: Circulatory effects of intermittent positive pressure ventilation in anesthetized children. Northwest Med 67:139-143, Feb 1968.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Failure to achieve oxygen supplementation with hydrogen peroxide. Pediatrics 41:531-533, Feb 1968.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL, Gaum D: Venous return with knee-chest position and squatting in tetralogy of Fallot. Am Heart J 75:313-318, March 1968.

Morgan BC, Church SC, Guntheroth WG: Hypoxic constriction of pulmonary artery and vein in intact dogs. J Appl Physiol 25:356-361, Oct 1968.

Morgan BC, Crawford EW, Guntheroth WG: Hemodynamic effects of changes in blood volume during intermittent positive pressure ventilation. Anesthesiology 30:297-305, March 1969.

Anthony CL, Crawford EW, Morgan BC: Treatment of cardiac and respiratory arrest in children. Clin Peds 8:647-653, Nov 1979.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, McGough GA, Scher AM: Alternate deletion and potentiation as the cause of pulsus alternans. Am Heart J 78:669-681, Nov 1969.

Dillard DH, Mohri H, Merendino KA, Morgan BC, Baum D, Crawford EW: Total correction of transposition of the great arteries in children less than six months of age. Surg Gynec Obstet 129:1258-1266, Dec 1969.

Morgan BC, Aase TM, Graham CB: Homozygosity for achondroplasia? Report of a possible case. Pediatrics 45:112-115, Jan 1970.

Rittenhouse EQ, Mohri H, Morgan BC, Dillard DH, Merendino KA: Electrocardiographic changes in infants undergoing surface-induced deep hypothermia for open heart surgery. Am Heart J 79:167-174, Feb 1970.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Pulmonary blood flow and resistance during acute atelectasis in intact dogs. J Appl Physiol 28:609-613, May 1970.

Morgan BC: Diptheria and death (editorial). Northwest Med 69:489-490, July 1970.

Morgan BC, Rickets HJ, Winterschied LC: Inferior clockwise frontal plane forces in a child with endocardial cushion defect. Amer Heart J 82:275-276, Aug 1971.

French JH, Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Infant monkeys: A model for crib death. Amer J Dis Child 123:480-484, May 1972.

Kalina RE, Hodson WA, Morgan BC: Retrolental fibroplasia in a cyanotic infant. Pediatrics 50:765-768, 1972.

Boynton RC, Morgan BC: Cerebral arteriovenous fistula with possible hereditary telangiectasia. Am J Dis Child 125:99-101, Jan 1973.

Morgan TE, Morgan BC: Surfactant synthesis, storage and release by alveolar cells, in Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Academic Press Inc., New York and London, 1973.

Stevenson JC, Stone EF, Dillard DH, Morgan BC: Intellectual development of children subjected to prolonged circulatory arrest during hypothermic open heart surgery in infancy. Supplement II to Circulation 49:56:II-54-II-59, Aug 1974.

Kawabori I, Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Reversal of "inoperable" pulmonary hypertension. Amer Heart J 89:775-778, June 1975.

Stevenson JB, Kawabori I, Morgan BC, Dillard DH, Merendino KA, Guntheroth WG: Rheumatic mitral regurgitation. The case of annuloplasty in the pediatric age group. Circulation, Suppl 1, 51-52:149-151, Aug 1975.

Kawabori I, Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mohri H, Dillard DH: Surgical correction in infancy to reduce mortality in transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Pediatrics 60:83-85, 1977.

Morgan BC: Incidence, etiology and classification of congenital heart disease in Symposium on Cardiology. Pediatr Clin North Am, Nov 1978.

Morgan BC: Systemic hypertension in children. Paediatrician 10:131-147, 1981.

Morgan BC: General pediatric practice: An academician's challenge. Clin Pediatrics 20:241-244, 1981.

Morgan BC: Projecting physician requirements for child health care--1990. Pediatrics 69:150-158, Feb 1982.

Morgan BC: Physician manpower needs for pediatric care in the United States. Advances in Pediatrics 29:295-323, 1982.

Morgan BC, et al: Report of the Task Force on Opportunities for Women in Pediatrics. Pediatrics 71 (Suppl), April 1983.

Dungy CI, Morgan BC, Adams B: Pediatrics in the Marshall Islands, Clinical Pediatrics, 23:29-32, January 1984.

Zenk KE, Uchiyama N, Petty B, Morgan BC: Use of captopril in minoxidil for malignant hypertension in an infant. Clinical Pharmacy 1984.

Morgan BC: Complications for intravascular catheters: Primum non nocere. Am J Dis Child 138:425-26, May 1984.

Zenk KE, Marble RD, Uchiyama N, Thomas R, Sperling DR, Morgan BC: Basic cardiac resuscitation drug dosages in infants and children. CSHP Voice, 10:45-46, Sept 1983.

Yu LC, Greene GR, Sperling DR, Morgan BC: Infective endocarditis following cardiac catheterization in infancy: A case report and review. Clinical Pediatrics, 25:222-224, 1986.

Morgan BC, Brumley G, Chapman D, Dreher RL, Robertson WO, Slungaard RK: Pediatric Manpower Recommendations: Report on the American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Pediatric Manpower, Pediatrics, 76:464-466, 1985.

Adler R, Morgan BC: Regional residency cooperatives. AJDC, 141:277-278, 1987.

Morgan BC: Nuclear energy and its effect on mankind. AJDC, 141-33, 1987.

Dungy CI, Morgan BC, Heotis PM, Branson HE, Adams WH: Normal hematologic values and prevalence of anemia in children living on selected Pacific atolls. Acta Haemat. 77:95-100, 1987.

Morgan BC: Advances in pediatric cardiology, AJDC, 143:24, 1989.

Morgan BC: Patient access to magnetic resonance imaging centers in Orange County, California (Letter to the Editor). NEJM, 328:884-885, 1993.

NON PEER REVIEW JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Vasopastic disorders in children. Heart Bull 19:37-39, March/April 1970.

Morgan BC: Admission of women into medical schools in the United States: Current status. The Woman Phys 26:305-309, June 1971.

Morgan BC: Book Review: The natural history and progress in treatment of congenital heart defects. Cardiol Digest, Nov 1972, p 50.

Morgan BC: Careers in medicine. Equal opportunities for women? King County Medical Bull 52:8-9, 1973.

Wessel MA, Morgan BC, Fried RD: Pediatrics a dying specialty? Most assuredly not! Medical Opin 4, 2:49-52, Feb 1975.

Morgan BC: Primary care--the pediatric perspective. King County Medical Bull 55:10-11, Feb 1976.

Morgan BC, et al: Women in Pediatrics: historical perspectives. American Academy of Pediatrics, Evanson, IL Oct 1982.

Zenk KE, Marble RD, Uchiyama N, Thomas R, Sperling DR, Morgan BC: Basic cardiac resuscitation drug doses in infants and children. Voice, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 1983, pages 45-46 (Official publication of the California Society of Hospital Pharmacists).

Morgan BC: The importance of salt intake to pediatricians, parents and children. Washington Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Newsletter, Summer/Fall, 1983.

Morgan BC: A history of women in pediatrics. Pediatric Annals, 28:165-168, 1999.

BOOKS:

Morgan BC (Editor): Symposium on Cardiology. Pediatr Clin North Am, WB Saunders Company, Philadelphia, Nov 1978.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Kaufman RL, Boynton RB, Hartmann AF, Morgan BC, McAlister WN: Family studies in congenital heart disease. III: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in two sisters and their female maternal first cousin. Proc 4th Conf on Clin Delineation of Birth Defects, Baltimore, MD, June 7-11, 1971.

Morgan BC: Heart disease in the newborn. Chapter in Brennemann-Kelley's Practice of Pediatrics, 1972.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Congenital heart disease, in Introduction to Clinical Pediatrics, ed Smith DW and Marshall WS, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1972.

Ray CG, Morgan BC: Diptheria, Chapter in Current Pediatric Therapy, ed Gellis SS, and Kagan BM, 7th Edition, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1976.

Morgan BC: Cor pulmonale in children. Chapter in Pediatric Intensive Care, ed Nussbaum E, Futura Publishing Company, 1980.

Morgan BC: Peripheral vascular disease in Current Pediatric Therapy. Gellis SS and Kagan BM, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1981.

Morgan BC: Sodium intake and hypertension in the population. Proc from a symposium: Hypertension: Prevention, Diet and Treatment in Infancy and Childhood. 8-12, Ed Sidney Blumenthal, Bethesda, MD, May 1982, Biomedical Information Corporation, 1983.

Morgan BC: Cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease in Current Pediatric Therapy, Gellis SS and Kagan BM, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1985.

Morgan BC: Cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease in Current Pediatric Therapy, Gellis SS and Kagan BM, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1986.

Morgan BC: Cor pulmonale in children in Pediatric Intensive Care, ed Nussbaum E, Futura Publishing Company, 1988.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Morgan BC: Cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography in severe neonatal heart disease. By Gyepes MT, Vincent WR, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1974.

Morgan BC: Clinical diagnosis in pediatric cardiology, By Zuberbuhler JR, Churchill Livingston, Inc., New York, NY 1981, Western Journal of Medicine.

Morgan BC: Paediatric Cardiology--Volume 4: Proceedings of the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology held in London in 1980--Edited by M.H. Godman, published by Churchill Livingston, Inc., New York, NY Western Journal of Medicine.

ABSTRACTS:

Griffiths SP, Morgan BC, Jameson AG, Blumenthal S: Ventricular septal defect in the adult age group. Circulation 24:946, Oct 1961.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL, Fyler DC: Clinical and physiological studies of paroxysmal hyperpnea in cyanotic congenital heart disease. Circulation 30:(III):129, Oct 9164.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG, Dillard DH, Breazeale D: Relationship of pericardial to pleural pressure during quiet respiration and cardiac tamponade. Circulation 30:(III):129, Oct 1964.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Lintermans JP, McGough GA, Figley MM: Super-normal character of strong beat in pulsus alternans. Circulation 32(II):104, Oct 1965.

Morgan BC, Martin WE, Hornbein TF, Crawford EW, Guntheroth WG: Effects of positive pressure breathing on aortic and vena caval blood flow. Circulation 32(II):154, Oct 1965.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL: effects of heart beat and respiration on flow patterns in the cavae, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein and aorta in intact dogs. Science 150:373, Oct 1965.

Morgan BC, Dillard DH, Guntheroth WG: Dynamics of pulmonary venous circulation. Proc Soc Ped Res, p. 15, 1966.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL: Venous return and cardiac output in the normal and in cardiac tamponade. Circulation 34(III):117-118, Oct 1966.

Dillard DH, Mohri H, Hessel EA, II, Anderson HN, Nelson RJ, Crawford EW, Morgan BC, Winterscheid LC, Merendino KA: Correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in infancy. Circulation 34(III):87-88, Oct 1966.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL: Venous flow patterns in animals and man. Dig Internat Con Med Biol Engng, p. 218, 1967.

Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mullins GL, Baum D: Venous return with knee-chest position in squatting in tetralogy of Fallot, Proc Soc Ped Res, p. 55, 1967.


Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Harbison JA, Mullins GL: Raynaud's disease in children. Proc Cardiol Section, Am Acad Peds, p. 6, 1967.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Hypoxic constriction of pulmonary artery and vein in intact dogs. Proc Soc Ped Res, p. 13, 1968.

Hodson WA, Morgan TE, Morgan BC: The effects of fetal pulmonary artery ligation on surfactant. Proc Soc Ped Res, p. 179, 1968.

Morgan BC, Guntheroth WG: Pulmonary blood flow and vascular resistance with acute atelectasis. Proc Soc Ped Res, p. 91, 1969.

Stevenson JG, Stone EF, Dillard DH, Morgan BC: Intellectual development of children subjected to prolonged circulatory arrest during hypothermic open heart surgery. Circulation 48(IV):35, 1973.

Stevenson JG, Kawabori I, Morgan BC, Dillard DH, Merendino KA, Guntheroth WG: Rheumatic mitral regurgitation, the case of annuloplasty in the pediatric age group. Circulation 50(III):73, Oct 1974.

Kawabori I, Guntheroth WG, Morgan BC, Mohri H, Dillard DH: Surgical correction in infancy to reduce mortality in transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Circulation (II)50-51:797, Oct 1975.

Schaller JG, Wallace C. Stamm S, Morgan BC, Patterson M: The occurrence of congenital heart block in infants of mothers with clinical or serological evidence of rheumatic disease. Arthritis and Rheumatism 22:659, 1979.

Zenk KE, Uchiyama N, Petty B, Morgan BC: Use of captopril and minoxidil for malignant hypertension in an infant. American Society for Hospital Pharmacists.

Morgan BC: Changing clinical profile of patients with infective endocarditis. VIII Asian-Pacific Congress of Cardiology, 1983.

Morgan BC, Bocian ME: Genetic and environmental prevention of cardiovascular disease. VIII Asian-Pacific Congress of Cardiology. 71, 1983.
Professional Societies
American Pediatric Society; Society for Pediatric Research; Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen, Inc, (1973-88); Member of Council (1975-78); Secretary/Treasurer (1981-87); American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow, Section on Cardiology; American College of Cardiology, Fellow; American Federation for Clinical Research; American Heart Association; Western Society for Pediatric Research, Orange County Pediatric Society, Chapter 4, District IX, American Academy of Pediatrics
Other Experience
Intern, Assistant Resident in Pediatrics
Stanford University Hospital, San Francisco, CA 1955—1956
Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics and Trainee, Pediatric Cardiology
Babies Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, NY 1956—1959
Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Diagnostic Laboratory
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 1959—1960
Special Research Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 1962—1964
Instructor, Pediatric College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University, New York City, NY 1960
Director, Heart Station
Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital, San Antonio, TX 1960—1962
Lecturer, Pediatrics
University of Texas 1960—1962
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1962—1973
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1973—1980
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Irvine; Irvine, California 1980—1988
Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology
University of California, Irvine; Irvine, CA 1988
Graduate Programs
Pediatric Cardiology (PD)
Pediatrics
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10/14/2004