“Because of everything that was given and poured into me,” Morrison says. But why is giving back so important to him, anyway? He estimates he’s helped dozens of young adults find a career path forward-in an array of professions outside of dentistry, he adds. “And then, on the back end, I’ve got relationships with dental schools and will begin to follow her into summer programs so that she can build her resume and be given admission once she completes her programming.” “We’re going to allow that young lady to shadow in office at least three times a month, so that she understands what it will take to be a pediatric dentist,” Morrison says. A friend of his has such a practice just three doors away, as it happens, while his wife’s office also stands ready to help if need be. A few days before Morrison spoke with us, a patient in his chair mentioned she was a sophomore at Prairie View A&M and was interested in exploring a career in pediatric dentistry. Many of these young people are student athletes he’s met through his kids’ athletic endeavors, but not all of them.
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Morrison continues to stay in touch with many of his dad’s players, whom he regards as “big brothers.” They’re part of an extended network of contacts-college buddies, professional colleagues, community leaders-he doesn’t hesitate to reach out to when he encounters someone he thinks might benefit from the same sort of “father figure” relationship he enjoyed with Fonseca in the early aughts. His father coached football at an inner-city high school in Virginia, and visiting practices helped him “experience life through the eyes of those ballplayers” and “grow up a little bit quicker,” he says.
Morrison credits his parents for providing him a strong moral foundation and emphasizing the importance of education. “Once you’ve got a kid who can perform at grade level, you’ve got a kid who’s got a chance to succeed,” says Morrison, currently president of WAIIT’s board of directors. More recently, WAIIT has focused on tutoring programs aimed at ensuring students at various District B schools read at grade level. Later, H-E-B got on board to donate food, and soon WAIIT was distributing about a thousand care packages to District B schools such as Kashmere Gardens Elementary and others. Morrison called on the organization’s corporate partners including Colgate, Proctor & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson to send boxes upon boxes of toothbrushes, toothpaste, and other hygiene products to Houston. What he had was leverage with the National Dental Association. “You don’t want them to feel as though they’re living in a Third World country, so we jumped in and did what we could with what we had.” “These kids already don’t live in River Oaks or Beverly Hills,” Morrison says. Especially in Davis’s District B, which covers a large section of northeast Houston and the area around Bush Intercontinental Airport, Morrison saw the flooded-out homes where families lost everything, including everyday necessities like food, clothes, water, and even toothbrushes.
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As the entire Houston area reeled from Hurricane Harvey in 2017, he and now-former Houston Vice Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Davis founded We Are In It Together (WAIIT), a nonprofit focused on students in underserved communities. Fonseca taught him “it doesn’t necessarily matter what the reimbursement may be, at the time that you’re visiting with that patient, that patient’s the most important piece of that entire health care dynamic,” Morrison says.Īpart from his professional work, Morrison is deeply rooted in his community. Raymond Fonseca, the former dean of Penn’s school of dental medicine. Morrison says his commitment to quality comes from lessons he learned from his mentor Dr. As Morrison’s referrals began drying up, he and his partners decided to reduce their number of locations from three to one: the Center at Copper Grove plaza in the Copperfield area.Īlthough shutting down two branches meant laying off some valuable employees, Morrison says the overall volume of patients hasn’t changed that much, nor has the level of care they provide: “We concentrated all of our energy into our one northwest practice and that practice has continued to flourish, to grow, and deliver the same quality care we’ve always delivered in the past.”
With dentists’ offices becoming hot zones of potential Covid-19 transmission, the number of patients seeking treatment plummeted.
Morrison found himself more challenged as a small businessman than an endodontist. But the pandemic wasn’t exactly peaceful for Moberi Dental.
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