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Visiting Professor Leadership Lecture | Amy Murtha, MD
Date: Thursday, April 25
Time: 1:30-2:15 p.m. (presentation) 2:15-2:30 p.m. (Q&A)
Location: Instructional Building, L112
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“Leadership: Planning for the Future"
Amy Murtha, MD, an accomplished researcher and maternal-fetal medicine specialist, joined Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as dean in August 2022. Her research and clinical work focus on caring for complicated pregnancies and on identifying the best ways to diagnose and care for patients at risk for preterm birth, particularly for pregnancies complicated by the premature rupture of fetal membranes.
As dean, Dr. Murtha leads the school’s commitment to excellence in patient care and community health, ensures comprehensive medical training for learners, promotes innovation in research across the school, and advances the equity and inclusion missions of the medical school.
Dr. Murtha served as professor and chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and chief medical officer of Women’s Health at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), before becoming dean. As chair, she increased support for faculty researchers, and during the COVID-19 pandemic led the rapid establishment of two national registries focused on COVID in pregnancy.
After earning her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Murtha completed residency in obstetrics and gynecology and fellowship in maternal fetal medicine at Duke University. She joined the faculty at Duke where her career as a translational scientist focused on fetal membrane biology and its role in preterm premature rupture of membranes. During her tenure at Duke, Dr. Murtha assumed increasing leadership roles including founder and course director Duke Molecular Techniques Workshop (CRP 265); serving as interim chair of OB-GYN and vice chair for research; director of the Duke CTSI Research Career Development Harmonization Program; and program director for the NIH-funded K12 training grant Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH), among other leadership positions. She is a frequent invited speaker at national and international symposia and is the recipient of numerous awards recognizing her research and leadership accomplishments.
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