Murray, M John

Born Palmerston North October 1921 Died USA 2001
John Murray
Educated at New Plymouth Boys High School
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1945 – 1946
Resident Physician, Hawera Hospital 1946 – 1947
Postgraduate training at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital; at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London; at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St; and at the National Heart Hospital, London
Medical Registrar, St Stephens Hospital, Fulham, London 1949
Registrar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney, London 1950
First Assistant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 1951 – 1952

photograph courtesy John Murray
Full time Physician, Wellington Hospital (junior to J Verney Cable) 1952 – 1953
Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital 1954
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1955 – 1958
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1959 – 1964
Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1965 – 1995
Visiting Professor, Oxford University 1968
Sabbatical year 1973 – 74 in Eastern Niger where, along with wife and children (3 doctors) ran hospital and undertook research
Sir James Wattie Travelling Professor to NZ 1974
Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 1990
Professor and Head of Medicine, University of Malawi, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre 1995 – 1998
Retired from full-time practice in 1998 but, along with family, has continued to operate Mobile Medical Clinics among the Maasai in Kenya for two months each year.