T. Jock Murray, OC, MD, FRCPC, FAAN, MACP, FRCP (Lond), LLD (Hon St FX), DSc (Hon Acadia) D.Litt (Hon St. Thomas) Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
T.J. "Jock" Murray is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine and founding director of the Dalhousie Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit. He is former Dean of Dalhousie Medical School, and while Dean he was elected President of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges and Chairman of the Canadian Medical Forum. He was President of the Canadian Neurological Society and a founder and President of the Consortium of MS Centres, which awarded him the Dr. Labe Scheinberg Award for Lifetime Contributions to Multiple Sclerosis research. He served two terms as Vice President of the American Academy of Neurology, and is Chairman Emeritus of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Murray has over 200 medical publications and 7 books, and has held 91 funded research grants.
He lectures widely on the history of the Canadian Health Care System and recently gave an address to the Taiwan Internal Medicine Association and to the American College of Physicians on this topic. He also recently was featured on an American on-line interview on a comparison of American and Canadian health care.
He has been the recipient of many awards, including Professor of the Year at Dalhousie University, honorary membership in the Canadian Radiological Society, Canadian College of Family Practice and London Osler Club, and awarded 3 honorary degrees. In 2002 he received a Mentor of the Year Award of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2008 inducted into the Order of Nova Scotia.
