Professor Philip Murray

Name: Philip Ian Murray

Job title: Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Birmingham

Qualifications/Post Nominals: MBBS, DO(RCS), PhD, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOphth

Where qualified: St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London

Year of initial qualification: 1978

Currently practising at: Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Committees

Royal College of Ophthalmologists: Examiner for Part II Fellowship examination and Fellowship Assessment; Chairman, Specialist Training Committee for Medical Ophthalmology and member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Medical Ophthalmology; Member of the Education Committee, in charge of Undergraduate Education subcommittee, and member of the International Medical Graduate, E-learning and Equivalence of Training subcommittees; Member of the Examinations Committee; Assessor for Article 14 applications

University of Birmingham: Member of the University Senate; Deputy Head, Graduate School, College of Medical and Dental Sciences

Other: Member of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Foundation Programme Committee; Section Editor, British Journal of Ophthalmology; Reviewing Editor, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation; Editorial Board Member, BMC Ophthalmology; External examiner for University of Nottingham, Aston University, and Middlesex University; Member of the Fight for Sight Grant Allocation Panel; Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom; Member of the Vision 2020 Eye Research UK Group

Societies: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, British Association of Ocular Pathologists, British Medical Association, British Society for Immunology, European Association for Vision and Eye Research, International Ocular Inflammation Society, International Society for Behçet’s Disease, International Uveitis Study Group (Honorary Secretary), Medical Ophthalmological Society, Midland Ophthalmological Society, Royal Society of Medicine

Special interests: Scleritis; all types of uveitis including Behçet’s disease, HIV-related eye disease, cataract surgery in uveitis patients. Laboratory: The eye has evolved many mechanisms to prevent significant inflammation, which can lead to visual impairment. I am investigating why in patients with uveitis, the eye cannot control the inflammation. Jazz!