Dr. Morgan Torris-Hedlund is an experienced nurse educator passionate about research, professional development, and community service. With a diverse background and roots in Oregon's rural farming and logging community, he developed an interest in community change in relation to personal choice, education, and socioeconomic opportunity.

In 1996, Morgan relocated to Oahu to care for his grandfather and began his nursing career in the emergency department. Over the years, he expanded his expertise to critical care settings, patient transport, and disaster response. Dr. Torris-Hedlund is a Fellow of the American Academy of Wilderness Medicine and holds certifications in emergency nursing, public health nursing, and as a healthcare disaster professional. He actively served on the Hawaii Disaster Medical Assistance Team for over a decade, contributing to disaster response efforts in the Pacific.

With a focus on disaster preparedness, wilderness medicine, community health, nursing epistemologies, intersectional expression, and Indigenous methodologies, Dr. Torris-Hedlund's commitment to advancing knowledge is evident through his involvement with peer-reviewed journals and professional organizations like the Wilderness Medical Society, Tri-Service Nursing Research Program, and the Journal of Indigenous Research. His early collaborations with the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies nurtured his interests in Indigenous politics, mythologies, and cultural responses to changing technologies.

Currently residing in Portland with his wife and son, Morgan continues collaborating with colleagues from Hawaii, despite being geographically separated from the communities where his nursing and academic experiences began.