Choosing which path to take can be a hard choice to juggle, especially when so many are laid out before you, but not for Morgan Sorg.
Sorg is a Boise State graduate with her bachelors in both kinesiology and respiratory care, currently pursuing her masters in the field of respiratory care with plans to graduate in August.
Sorg didn’t always know that this was the path for her but growing up in a family with parents who owned a gym, and her father being a physical therapist, being in the field of energy and health was always something that came naturally to her. Later, Sorg reached out to Jeff Anderson, an associate professor in the department of Respiratory Care at Boise State, who propelled her in the direction of respiratory care.
Meanwhile, Sorg focused on her eagerness to help others, Sorg spent time in Ohio, working at the renowned Cleveland Clinic. Half of her work was clinical and the other half was research, Sorg gained experience working in pediatric and neonatal care, working tirelessly through the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly thereafter, Sorg made the decision to start pursuing her MSRC at Boise State and one month in, Sorg found out she was pregnant and she did not let this stop her, in fact you could say, it drove her forward on her path with even more ardor.
Sorg gave high praises to the program and the professors involved who gave her flexibility in allowing her to take courses while actively in the hospital. Sorg continuously spoke highly of the Department of Respiratory Care as well as the professors involved in helping her along her path, especially as she had recently become a new mother.
Now Sorg works for a medical device company, that specializes in making a specific type of ventilator for babies that are premature or otherwise ill. Sorg works with these engineers and communicates with the FDA to come up with the best way to take care of those in neonatal care.
Sorg is also teaching as an adjunct professor at Boise State and emphasizes her love for learning and the way that teaching what she loves to others as the ultimate learning experience.
While juggling being a new mother and working full time, Sorg is working on her final project for her masters. It surrounds Clinical Practice Guidelines and compares the practices at hospitals in real time to what has just been recommended to them. Sorg aims to see if it changes patient outcomes and is now working on a national survey and will be matching these questions to the recently released guidelines. As Sorg finishes the survey and final manuscript, she will have been working on this for the last year and a half.
Anderson states that Sorg was “interested and interactive in each class meeting, and applied herself to mastery of the content. She excelled in our program especially working with Lonny Ashworth on mechanical ventilation research, and after graduation went on to be involved in research in her new place of employment. She is poised to take over her department’s research program and follow in the footsteps of an international expert in respiratory care research, and we could not be more proud of her!”
Kristen McHenry, another associate professor within the department and program coordinator of the master’s program, shares that when Sorg first approached the American Association for Respiratory Care, it was initially to assist in review of literature.
“Her content knowledge and work ethic soon propelled her to be a fully contributing part of the team and co-author of the Clinical Practice Guideline,” McHenry said.” As her faculty advisor on her capstone project, I have witnessed her use that experience to curate a remarkable study to determine clinical practice alignment with the new CPG.
“We are proud of the work Morgan has done and this is just another example of how the Masters of Science in Respiratory Care program at Boise State equips leaders and content experts in the field of Respiratory Care.”