Dr. Heather Murray

Biography

Dr. Heather Murray is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Queen's University, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers, book chapters, and commentaries, with publications spanning areas such as skin and soft tissue infections, procedural sedation, and the development of emergency department-based clinical decision rules for conditions like stroke and syncope. Her recent research focuses on identifying effective methods for teaching skills in evidence-based medicine and exploring innovative models for knowledge dissemination. As an accomplished educator at the School of Medicine, she is the Scholar Competency Lead at Queen's, where she has designed and implemented new courses and enhanced the four-year curriculum in evidence-based medicine. Dr. Murray has developed and published new teaching techniques for clinical reasoning through the use of classroom simulation labs. She served as Year Director for the medical school, where she restructured the second-year curriculum and created a novel series of complex cases aimed at integrating clinical reasoning with the roles of non-medical expert physicians. She has received several teaching awards, including the CAME Certificate of Merit in 2013, the Principal’s Award for Curriculum Development in 2015, the Faculty of Health Sciences Education Award in 2016, and the Connell Award for Aesculapian Lectureship in 2019. In the same year, she won the Chancellor Charles Baillie Award for her outstanding influence on the quality of student learning at Queen's University.

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