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Dr. John Edward Morley is the Dammert Professor of Gerontology and director of the division of geriatric medicine at Saint Louis University Medical Center. Dr. Morley is also director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the medical director of two nursing homes.

Dr. Morley completed his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1972. After completing his internal medicine residency in South Africa, he did a fellowship in endocrinology at UCLA. He was subsequently a staff endocrinologist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and the University of Minnesota. In January 1985, he moved to California to become director of the geriatric research, education, and clinical center, Sepulveda VA Medical Center and a professor of medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Morley is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, and geriatric medicine. He has edited over 20 books including Medical Care in the Nursing Home, GeriatricNutrition, Endocrinology of Aging, and Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine. His most recent book published in 2008 is The Science of Staying Young which focuses on information for the general public. He has published over 1000 papers, with a major research emphasis on the role of neuropeptides in the modulation of hormonal responses and behavior as well as nutrition and hormones in older persons.

For his work in appetite regulation, he received the Mead Johnson Award of the American Institution of Nutrition in 1985. His work has been cited over 20,000 times. He was the medical director of the year for Life Care Centers of America in 1998.  In 1999 he was awarded the IPSEN Foundation Longevity Prize which is one of the most prestigious European awards for research in gerontology. In 2001 he received the Gayle and Richard Olson Prize for Most Outstanding Behavioral Paper Published the Previous Year in the Journal Peptides as well as receiving the Circle Award from the American Dietetic Association. In 2002 he was chosen to receive the American Geriatrics Society's Nascher/Manning Award for his life-long achievements in clinical geriatrics. In November, 2004 he was awarded the Joseph T. Freeman Award by the Gerontological Society of America for his work in geriatrics both in research and practice.  In June, 2005 he was honored as the recipient of the Marsha Goodwin-Beck Interdisciplinary Award for Excellence in Geriatric Leadership by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Leadership Board. 

He has served on the editorial boards of nine journals. He was the associate editor of the Journal of American Geriatrics Society. He edits the geriatrics section of Cyberounds. He served as editor for the Journal of Gerontology:Medical Sciences from January, 2000 through December, 2005. He is the editor for the Journal of the American Medical Director's Association.  He has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings.