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University Life
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
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Accessibility & LanguageMeet the CDP-CDP consortium
Professor Andrew Murphy
Professor Andrew W Murphy has been foundation Professor of General Practice since 1997 and has been responsible, with many others notably Maureen Kelly, Noirin Fitzgerald and Peter Cantillon, for developing under-graduate education in general practice and post graduate education in primary care in the University and region. He is also a general practitioner principal, with Drs Brendan Day, Eamon Twomey and Liam O’Reilly, in a semi-rural practice in Turloughmore, County Galway.
Andrew qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1988, completed his higher general practice training in Dublin 1992, was awarded an MD in 1996, a Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in London in 2004 and a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology in Australia in 2011. He was Visiting Professor to the University of Adelaide and Flinders University in Australia for the year of 2004. His research, largely quantitative and always collaborative, addresses chronic disease management and professional practice in the community. Great colleagues in these endeavors include Susan Smith (GP), Molly Byrne (Health Psychologist), Margaret Cupples (GP), Liam Glynn (GP), John Newell (Biostatistician) and Gerry Molloy (Health Psychologist). His H-index (for all its limitations!) in July 2020 is 47 and his i-10 Index 157, with a total of 8, 716 citations. He is Director, with Patrick Murphy as Development Manager, of the five year € 2.5 million HRB Primary Care Clinical Trial Network (2015) which has run over 26 trials recruiting over 3, 500 patients (https://primarycaretrials.ie/). Together with Siobhan Masterson, he has contributed to the academic stewardship of the National Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register (https://www.nuigalway.ie/ohcar/). He is currently an External Advisor to the UK National Institute of Health Research, the Norwegian General Practice Research Network and the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education.
