Dr. Murphy graduated from Queen’s University with a degree in Life Science in 1988, and from the Queen’s School of Medicine in 1990.  From 1990-1995, he completed his Anaesthesia training at Kingston General Hospital and Queen’s University.

 

Dr. Murphy completed a Fellowship in Paediatric Anaesthesiology at Harvard-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital from 1996-1997. He was an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University from 1997 until 2002, when he left to practice anaesthesiology at Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, New York. In 2003, Dr. Murphy became the Chair of Samaritan’s Anesthesiology Department and was instrumental in establishing the hospital’s first Pain Clinic.

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Dr. Murphy returned to Kingston, in 2008, to open KOPI, where he is presently Medical Director and again associated with Queens University as an assistant professor and resident teacher in interventional chronic pain.