Principal Investigator Profile

Professor Andrew Murphy

Biography

As Foundation Professor of the Department of General Practice since 1997, Andrew W Murphy has been responsible for developing under graduate education in general practice and post graduate education in primary care in the University and region. He is also a general practitioner principal in a semi-rural practice in Turloughmore County Galway.

Andrew qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1988, completed his higher general practice training in 1992, was awarded an MD in 1996, a Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2004 and a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology in 2006. He was a Visiting Professor to the University of Adelaide and Flinders University for the year of 2004. 

Andrew was the inaugural Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee (2005-08) and past Chair (2004-08) and Secretary (2000-04) of the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland. He has contributed to national policy development as the Chair of the Primary Care Sub-Committee of the Advisory Forum of the Cardiovascular Strategy (2000-6). He is currently a member of the Hypertension Committee of the Irish Heart Foundation (2008-).

Webpage:  http://www.nuigalway.ie/general_practice/staff_pages/andrewmurphy.html 

Research Area:

Andrew’s research, largely quantitative and always collaborative, addresses chronic disease management and professional practice in the community.

He is principal investigator of the Health Research Board (HRB) funded five year research programme on the provision of secondary cardiac care in the community which is the largest non-pharmaceutical trial ever conducted on the island of Ireland ( http://www.spherestudy.com/).  He is a co-applicant in the €20 million Galway Clinical Research Facility funded by the HRB and HSE

Andrew is also Inaugural Chair, since 2006, of the multidisciplinary NUI Galway Centre for Clinical Health Services Research and Development http://www.nuigalway.ie/cchsrd/

Current Projects:

Cardiovascular multimorbidity in primary care
Investigators: Liam Glynn, Ivan Perry (UCC), Andrew W Murphy  
Funding Agency: Health Research Board
Funding Awarded: €306,122  
Start date: February 2009 
Finish date: January 2012

The risk associated with anaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease: a cohort study Investigators: Liam Glynn, Jocelyn Anderson, Donal Reddan, Andrew W Murphy  
Funding Agency: ROCHE
Funding Awarded: €7,235  
Start date: December 2008 
Finish date: December 2009

Antibiotic prescribing and bacteriuria caused by trimethoprim and quinolone resistant bacteria in the community: a multilevel study with prospective patient and retrospective practice data
Investigators:  Andrew W Murphy, Martin Cormican, Kathleen Bennett  
Collaborators: Chris Butler (Cardiff), Peter Davey (Dundee), Colin Bradley (Cork)
Funding Agency: Health Research Board  
Funding Awarded: €299, 722
Start date: July 2008  / Finish date: December 2009

Cochrane review of interventions used to improve control of blood pressure in patients with hypertension 
Investigator:  Liam Glynn  
Collaborators: Andrew W Murphy, Tom Fahey (RCSI), Susan Smith (TCD)                                                                              Funding A gency: Health Research Board Cochrane Fellowship Award, 2007
Funding Awarded: €54,800   
Start date: January 2008
Finish date: December 2009

A combined methods study to evaluate public attitudes and consent preferences regarding use of personal information contained in general practice medical records for research and service development 
Investigator:  Brian Buckley  
Collaborators: Anne McFarlane, Andrew W Murphy, Michael Robling (Cardiff), Kerenza Hood (Cardiff)                                       Funding Agency: Health Research Board
Funding Awarded: €243,439   
Start date: October 2007
Finish date: September 2010

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register (OHCAR)  
Investigator:  Andrew W Murphy  
Collaborators: Peter Wright                                                                                                                                              Funding A gency: Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council
Funding Awarded: €145,000   
Start date: June 2007
Finish date: May 2010

Patients' perspectives of continuity of care in general practice out of hours co-operatives  
Investigators:  Anne McFarlane, Andrew W Murphy, George Freeman  
Collaborators: Liam Glynn, Colin Bradley, Brian Murphy, Paul Armstrong, Niamh Gallagher                                                      Funding A gency: Health Research Board
Funding Awarded: €133,901 + €13,207 (October 2006)   
Start date: January 2006
Finish date: March 2009

List of Publications:

Buckley B, Simpson CR, Hannaford PC, Murphy AW.  Five year survival in a primary care identified incident cohort of people with angina.  British Medical Journal (in press).

Cupples ME, Byrne MC, Smith SM, Leathem C, Murphy AW. Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in different primary healthcare systems, with and without pay-for-performance. Heart 2008; 94: 1594 - 1600.

Buckley B, Murphy AW, Byrne M, Glynn L. Selection bias resulting from the requirement for prior consent in observational research: a community cohort of people with ischaemic heart disease. Heart 2007; 93 (9): 1116-1120  

Glynn LG, Reddan D, Newell J, Hinde J, Buckley B, Murphy AW. Chronic kidney disease and mortality and morbidity among patients with established cardiovascular disease: a West of Ireland community-based cohort study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007; 22(9):2586-94

Byrne M, Cupples ME, Smith SS, Leathem C, Corrigan M, Byrne MC, Murphy AW.  Development of a complex intervention for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care using the UK Medical Research Council framework. American Journal of Managed Care 2006; 12:261-266.

Murphy AW, Cupples ME, Smith SS, Byrne M, Leathem C, Byrne MC. The SPHERE Study. Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: protocol of a randomised controlled trial of tailored practice and patient care plans with parallel qualitative, economic and policy analyses. Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2005; Jul 29;6(1):11

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