Meet the Team

Founder

Stephen A Morrison, PT DPT, OCS, PCPS

Dr. Morrison is a board-certified specialist in Orthopedic Physical Therapy (OCS) and a graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Spine Rehabilitation Fellowship (2013) and the Kaiser Permanente Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency (2011). In 2018, he was certified by the University of South Australia at Adelaide in Pain Science.

Dr. Morrison currently practices at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles, where he trains clinicians as a preceptor for the Orthopedic Residency and the Persistent Pain Fellowship.

Dr. Morrison has been working with the chronic pain population for close to a decade. After graduating with his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Georgia State University, he moved across the country for the Kaiser Permanente Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Program. It was during this time that he was a very introduced to the chronic pain world, being gifted an Explain Pain book for graduation with his mentors.

The very next year, Dr. Morrison would have ample opportunities to put the lessons in this book to use as he was accepted to the Kaiser Permanente Physical Therapy Spine Rehabilitation Fellowship. This year proved to be vital, as there was ample opportunity to practice with the chronic pain population. The lessons learned during his fellowship year would be vital toward laying the foundations of Deconstructing Pain. Dr. Morrison was starting to see the outlines of what ideal treatment for the chronic pain population could be, how to combine all the important research where available, and press on when not.

In the years that followed, Dr. Morrison voraciously devoured the literature, and sought out classes, books, and research from the brightest minds in the field. He started to train residents as a preceptor in the Kaiser Permanente Orthopedic Residency, and later fellows as a part of the only Physical Therapy Pain Fellowship in the country.

William Burns, PT, DPT, PCPS

Kevin Ozaki, PT, DPT, OCS, PCPS