Boston University Medical Campus
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Allergy Medicine

Special Interests:
RESEARCH:

• ALI/ARDS
• Critical Care Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Macrophage Biology

CLINICAL:

• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmonary Interventional Services
• Pulmonary Consult Service
• Tuberculosis Clinic

In his role as the Medical Director of the new MICU on the East Newton Campus Dr Murphy has primarily been concerned with instituting a new model for delivery of intensive care at BU, utilizing a multidisciplinary team of Intensivist, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellows, Hospitalist, and Nurse Practitioners. Dr Murphy, in cooperation with the Critical Care Research Group, has been working to enhance multidisciplinary Critical Care Clinical and Translational research at BMC and collaborate on a number of ongoing clinical trials at BMC. Dr Murphy is also in charge of the didactic curriculum used to instruct rotating house officer on the essential core concepts of critical care medicine. Clinically Dr Murphy Attends in all BMC MICU’s, on the Pulmonary Consult service, the Pulmonary Interventional Service, and in the Boston Department of Public Health’s Tuberculosis Clinic.

Selected Publications:

1. Murphy, J. , Summer, R., Wilson , A.A., Kotton, D.N., and Fine, A. The Prolonged Life-Span of Alveolar Macrophages. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2008 Apr;38(4):380-5.
2. Murphy, J. , Summer, R., and Fine, A. Stem Cells in Airway Smooth Muscle. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2008 Jan 1;5(1):11-4.
3. Summer, R., Fitzsimmons, K., Dwyer, D., Murphy, J. , and Fine, A. Isolation of an Adult Mouse Lung Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell Population. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 2007 Aug;37(2):152-9.

Links:
www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonary/clinicalcenters/criticalcare/
www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonary/research/translational/clinicalcareresearchprog/

Dr. Murphy sees patients in the following locations:
TB Clinic