William Morrone

Dr. William Morrone (born August 24, 1958) is a Board Certified physician, a toxicologist, a Medical Examiner and the Director of Forensic Medicine at Belladonna Medical Consultants based around Detroit, Michigan. An adjunct/assistant professor of Family and Community Medicine at Michigan State University and adjunct faculty at Des Moines University in Iowa, he has also been a frequent guest on the criminal justice based news show Nancy Grace seen on CNN Headline Prime CNN.com/transcripts. From 2001–2002 he served as one of fifteen Michigan State University Faculty Development Fellows. Dr. Morrone also has publications and U.S. patents involving research in the areas of cerebral ischemia, cardiac arrhyhmias and seizures. He has lectured at state medical society meetings and the Michigan Department of Community Health subgroups on topics from opiate addiction to HPV and cancer screening in HIV positive patients.

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Morrone grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin system, his graduate degree in toxicology/pharmacology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and medical degree at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, in East Lansing, Michigan. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Michigan State University COM IRMC. He completed his residency in family practice at Michigan State University COM BRMC.

In 2002, Morrone volunteered to serve as army medical staff, for "Operation Iraqi Freedom", in personal letter to General Tommy Franks but was eliminated by recruiters due to his age and vision.

In March and April of 2007, Nancy Grace CNN Headline Prime, MSNBC news, CNN news and Jimmy Kimmel "the Later Show" illustrated, emphasized and dramatized Dr. Morrone's ability to teach medicine and science in visual sound bites with enough humor to make E! TV the soup's (formerly known as Talk Soup) "Clip of the Week" youtube.com.