Adam Murphy, MD

Clinical Instructor
Northwestern University
Dept. of Urology
303 East Chicago Avenue, Tarry 16-703
Chicago, IL
USA 60611
Email: a-murphy2@northwestern.edu

Biographical Sketch: Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, Birthplace Chicago, Illinois Adam was born on the south side of Chicago to an entrepreneur and a public health nurse with strong community ties. He has been volunteering in community health initiatives since age 10 when he led AIDS education workshops. By age 13, he helped organize a workshop for inner city Chicago-area 7-12th graders focusing on safer sex, violence prevention and other healthy lifestyle choices. He began his research career in high school in Neuropsychology, looking at the linkage between various types of abuse and MRI detected brain abnormalities. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS in Biology and Minors in Chemistry and Mathematics. Adam went to the University of Chicago for a joint degree program to attain a Doctorate of Medicine and Master's in Business Administration. He went to Northwestern University for a residency in Urology from 2004 until June. In his spare time, he serves as a board member of a program aimed at helping recently incarcerated men re-integrate into society and also volunteers in multiple Health Fairs and Prostate Cancer Screening events. Currently, he is on faculty at Northwestern University in the Department of Urology and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. In line with his dedication to research, he serves as a primary investigator studying the connection between vitamin D deficiency and prostate cancer risk. He also is looking at prostate cancer risk among men infected with prostate cancer. He has received research funding from the US Department of Defense to carry out this research project. He now is working with Project Brotherhood to conduct focus group-based study to discover the barriers to screening for prostate cancer and HIV in African American men on the south side of Chicago. He is enrolled in a Masters of Science in Clinical Research program with the aim to become an established Clinician-Scientist focusing on health disparities affecting minorities.

Papers:
3085.0 Biological and environmental modifiers of vitamin D3 and prostate cancer risk study: A model for disparities research in urban environments 3123.0 Association of dyslipidemia and prostate cancer in African American men 3123.0 Establishing the Kumasi Cancer Registry: Reflections on epidemiologic surveillance of cancers in Africa 3296.0 Are there treatment disparities in prostate cancer in HIV-infected men?