Patricia Morton, Ph.D.

Patricia Morton, Ph.D., director of Planning and Development for the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, was recruited by Wise Young to assist in developing the Keck Center and Spinal Cord Injury Project. She organized the first New Jersey Neuroscience Symposium, the inaugural symposium for the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research, and was a founding member of the commission. She coordinated the state-by-state advocacy group, Quest for the Cure, which increased funding for spinal cord injury research. Morton has been instrumental in building collaborations between research organizations, corporations, and government leaders, and deals extensively with spinal injured persons and their families. She leads a seminar on spinal cord injuries, stem cells, and clinical trials: “Pushing the Frontiers, Raising the Ethical Questions.”