Morris Wortman, M. D.
Dr. Wortman is the sole surviving child of Israel and Helen Wortman. His mother was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910—one of 5 children. The war claimed her parents, her husband and all but one sibling. Israel Wortman was born in Opatow, Poland in 1908—one of eight children. By the outbreak of WWII he had already lost his father and worked, along with his siblings, to support their mother. Israel was married to his first wife and had two sons, Joseph and Isaac. During the war years Israel was assigned to forced labor at the Skarzysko-Kamienna concentration camp where he worked in a factory that produced nerve gas for the Nazis. He was later transferred to Buchenwald and then to Dachau. Before the end of the war he was herded onto a train headed for an extermination camp in the east before being liberated by American armed forces on April 30, 1945.
Helen and Israel met at the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp—the first Jewish DP camp. They arrived in the United States on November 29, 1947 the day that the United Nations passed UN Resolution GA181 dividing Palestine into an Israeli State and an Arab State--a resolution that was rejected by the Arabs.
Morris Wortman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. He was a suma cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College before receiving his medical degree internship and residency training at the University or Rochester School of Medicine. He has been in medical practice since 1980. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Menstrual Disorders and Reproductive Choice.
Dr. Wortman has written numerous articles in scientific journals and textbooks and lectured extensively around the country. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He has 3 daughters, Erina, Rachel and Arielle. His son, Israel was born in 2008 and was named for his grandfather and was born a full century after the birth of his namesake.