J. Glenn Morris Jr.

J. Glenn Morris, Jr., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his B.A. from Rice University in Houston in
1973, and a master’s degree in public health and tropical medicine and his M.D. degree from Tulane
University in New Orleans in 1977. Morris has a strong research interest in the area of emerging pathogens.
He maintains an active, NIH-funded laboratory working in the area of molecular genetics and molecular
epidemiology; is involved in hospital studies looking at the emergence of resistant microorganisms; has
worked extensively with clinical, laboratory, and environmental issues related to harmful algal blooms; and
serves as co-principal investigator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emerging Infections
Program sentinel surveillance site (FoodNet) in Maryland. He has served on four National Academy of
Sciences expert committees dealing with food safety. From 1994 to 1996, he worked with the Food Safety
Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the first major revision of food safety regulations
since 1906. November 2003