Charles A. Morris, MD, MPH, is Chief Medical Officer at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also the inaugural incumbent of the Palandjian Family Distinguished Chair in Medicine at the Brigham. Morris has served as the program director for the Division of General Medicine Primary Care Residency and as the associate medical director of Primary Care, both in the Department of Medicine.
He has practiced primary care and hospital-based medicine at BWH and has been the medical director for Brigham Circle Medical Associates. Morris has led several quality improvement and population health initiatives. He directly oversaw the creation of and operations for an ambulatory population management program that advanced quality of care for several thousand BWH patients with chronic disease. He has held several important leadership positions and is an active teacher of clinical medicine in the ambulatory clinics and inpatient wards.
He is a graduate of Princeton University and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, after which he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at BWH, where he also served as chief medical resident. He obtained his Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He joined the faculty at BWH in 2002, and is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.