The Healthcare Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School has named Claire Morton as the 2024-2025 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman MD Graduate Fellowship.
The fellowship, made possible by a generous gift from the Grossman family, honors the life and legacy of Jerome H. Grossman, who dedicated his career to strengthening healthcare delivery in the United States. The fellowship supports talented physicians and medical students who share Grossman’s commitment and sense of urgency to bring meaningful change to the health care system by enabling them to pursue a two-year master’s degree in public policy or public administration at Harvard Kennedy School.
Claire Morton is a second-year general surgery resident at Yale New Haven Hospital with an interest in trauma and critical care. In addition to her clinical work, Morton’s research focuses on improving the care delivered to older adult surgical patients and to all patients approaching the end of their lives. Morton has conducted prior research and policy work through the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins Hospital, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and the Congressional Offices of Congressman John Sarbanes. Morton holds an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, cum laude, where she was inducted into AOA, the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the David R Gens Shock Trauma Scholarship, the Department of Surgery Humanism in Surgery Award, and the Joanne Hatem MD Memorial Prize. She holds a bachelor of arts from Duke University where she designed an interdisciplinary major titled, “What It Means to Die: The Biopsychosocial Process of Aging and Death,” capstoned with a distinction thesis focused on narrative medicine techniques at the end of life. Morton intends to spend her career in service of advancing clinical excellence, conducting research to advance the field of surgical palliative care, and supporting policy change to improve the care delivered to older adults and those approaching the end of life.
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