Michael B. Murphy is an Irish doctor and academic. He was the

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from 2007 to 2017. From 2019 until 2023, Murphy served as the president of the

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(EUA). Since October 2024 he is serving as president of the

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Early life and education

Murphy earned his undergraduate degree in medicine at University College Cork (UCC), graduating in 1973. He undertook further studies at the

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in London, England. He then studied for a doctorate at the

, which he completed in 1984.

Career

From 1984 to 1992, Murphy taught medicine and pharmacology at the

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in the United States. In 1992, he returned to Ireland and UCC, where he had been appointed

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of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He was appointed the dean of the faculty of medicine and health at UCC in 2000, before becoming the head of its college of medicine and health in 2006. In December 2006, he was announced as the next President of University College Cork. He took up the post on 1 February 2007 in succession to Gerry Wrixon. He stepped down as president in 2017, after ten years leading UCC, and was succeeded by Patrick O'Shea. As a physician, Murphy practised medicine at St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin and at St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork.

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References

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