Arden Morris, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Colorectal Surgery. Dr. Morris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in mathematics. She received her M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1993 and went on to complete her General Surgery residency at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland Oregon. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Morris was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and earned a Masters of Public Health degree at the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Minnesota in June of 2003. Dr. Morris joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in July 2004.

Dr. Morris has won numerous awards for presentations at scientific meetings. Her primary research interests have focused on racial disparities in surgical outcomes and on the quality of surgical care.