An outstanding physician, builder, and mentor
Over his long career, Dr. Murray has made many important contributions to MS research and education both nationally and internationally. He founded and then directed the Dalhousie MS Research Unit for more than 20 years and was a founder and president of the International Consortium of MS Centers. As Dean of Medicine from 1985 to 1992, he proved himself an innovator in medical education creating a trendsetting, problem-based, tutorial format curriculum in the undergraduate years and a world-respected program in the medical humanities, He once wrote: “We need science, but science also needs the humanities to understand human values and the human questions and the human decisions that must guide our use of science.”