Murray John MURRAY MB ChB (NZ), DCH RCP (Lond) RCS (Eng), MD (NZ), FRACP, FRCP (Edin), DSc (Otago), FRCP (Lond)
Born Palmerston North October 1921 Educated at New Plymouth Boys High School MB ChB (NZ) 1945, DCH RCP (Lond) RCS (Eng) 1950, MD (NZ) 1954, FRACP 1962, FRCP (Edin) 1970, DSc (Otago) 1971, FRCP (Lond) 1973 HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1945 - 1946 Resident Physician, Hawera Hospital 1946 - 1947 Postgraduate training at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital; at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London; at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St; and at the National Heart Hospital, London Medical Registrar, St Stephens Hospital, Fulham, London 1949 Registrar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney, London 1950 First Assistant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 1951 - 1952
Full time Physician, Wellington Hospital (junior to J Verney Cable) 1952 - 1953 Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital 1954 Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1955 - 1958 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1959 - 1964 Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1965 - 1995 Visiting Professor, Oxford University 1968 Sabbatical year 1973 - 74 in Eastern Niger where, along with wife and children (3 doctors) ran hospital and undertook research Sir James Wattie Travelling Professor to NZ 1974 Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 1990 Professor and Head of Medicine, University of Malawi, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre 1995 - 1998 Retired from full-time practice in 1998 but, along with family, has continued to operate Mobile Medical Clinics among the Maasai in Kenya for two months each year. Click the image to view detail in a larger version.
	photograph courtesy John Murray