Peter Daniel Murray, MD
Neonatology
Bio & Overview
Peter Murray, MD, is a neonatologist who cares for critically ill infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He has additional training in biomedical ethics and serves as a resource for the many ethical conundrums that arise in the daily provision of care for imperiled newborns.
As an associate professor of pediatrics at the UVA School of Medicine, Murray educates future providers about the complex interaction between neonatology and biomedical ethics. He also serves as an ethics consultant on the Ethics Consult Service and is the current UVA Health Ethics Committee chair.
Originally from the Bronx, New York, Murray grew up in South Florida and attended undergraduate school at the University of Florida. He liked it so much there that he stayed an extra year to earn a master's degree in management. Murray then decided to move to the Northeast to pursue his medical training and attended medical school at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Murray completed a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine on the biomedical ethics track at Yale University School of Medicine. Following his clinical fellowship, Murray pursued another fellowship in biomedical ethics at Harvard Medical School to hone his skills in this challenging field further. He also completed a master’s degree in biomedical ethics at the Ohio State University School of Medicine.
His research interests are broad but currently center on the status of the fetus as a patient and the use of ethical frameworks in the NICU for decision-making.
Outside of the office, Murray enjoys hiking the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge mountains with his wife, daughters, and golden doodle and weight lifting. When not trekking in the mountains, he can usually be found with his family at one of Charlottesville’s many fine outdoor venues.
Academic Information
- Department
- Pediatrics
- Academic Role
- Associate Professor
- Division
- Neonatal/Perinatal
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Age Groups Seen
- Infants (0-2)
- Primary Education
- Temple University School of Medicine
- Residency
- Thomas Jefferson University
- Fellowships
- Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine), American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
Highlights
Watch Dr. Murray's profile
My name is Peter Daniel Murray and I am an attending neonatologist here at the University of Virginia. Typically, in the NICU, we will see patients who are critically ill, anywhere from 22 to 23 weeks gestation, on up to full-term infants who have some sort of medical need or medical condition that will require them to be admitted to the intensive care unit. We will treat any neonate that comes into the intensive care unit as the most important patient that we have. While we may have 40 or 50 other patients, we will still give your baby every detail and every increased amount of attention that they deserve because we do understand that they are your hopes and dreams for the future and we will treat them as such. Any parent who has an infant who is admitted into the intensive care unit can expect a lot of support, both from myself as a physician, but also from the nurses, the social workers, the chaplains, the respiratory therapists, everyone here at UVA in the NICU is there to support the family as a whole. We understand that this is very hard. We understand that this is probably going to be one of the hardest things you ever have to experience and we're all here for you. And I, myself, pride myself on my ability to get to know the parents well, to really get to know where they're coming from in their love and their support of their infant, and I hope to just be a part of that.
Awards
- 2014 Best Clinical Research Talk, 40th Annual New England Conference on Perinatal Research