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Rory Murphy, MD, is a neurosurgeon and an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Murphy’s clinical practice focuses on the surgical treatment of complex cranial and spinal pathologies, including tumors and spinal cord compression, as well as peripheral nerve surgery. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), AO Spine, the Congress of Neurosurgeons (CNS), the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and the Cervical Spine Research Society Education Committee.
Dr. Murphy earned his medical degree from University College Cork in Ireland. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, and a clinical fellowship in functional neurosurgery at the University of California-San Francisco.
Dr. Murphy is active in translational cervical spinal cord injury research. He is the site principal investigator (PI) for the Department of Defense Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Trial and previously served as a PI for the Missouri Spinal Cord Injury Research Program. His research has been published in the journals Nature, Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, and Spine.
Office Location
Barrow Brain and Spine
19636 North 27th Avenue, Suite 203
Phoenix, AZ 85027
To request an appointment with Dr. Murphy, please call (623) 562-5050.
- Fellowship, University of California-San Francisco, Functional Neurosurgery, 2016-2017
- Residency, Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Neurosurgery, 2010-2016
- Basic surgical training, Royal College of Surgeons, 2008-2010
- Internship, Cork University Hospital, 2007-2008
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Cervical Spine Research Society Education Committee
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- Rosenman Innovator, University of California-San Francisco, 2017
- Bay Area Falling Walls Winner, Stanford University, 2016
- Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Section on Disorders of the Spine, 2016
- Augustus McCravey Resident Award, Southern Neurological Society, 2014
- Sanford Larson Research Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Section on Disorders of the Spine, 2014
- Spine Clinical Trial Proposal Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Section on Disorders of the Spine, 2013
Smart Spine Implants.
Date: 04/2024
Authors: Rory K. Murphy
Management of mild degenerative cervical myelopathy and asymptomatic spinal cord compression: an international survey
Date: 12/2023
Authors: Jamie F. Brannigan, Benjamin M. Davies, Oliver D. Mowforth, Ratko Yurac, Vishal Kumar, Joost Dejaegher, Juan J. Zamorano, Rory K. Murphy, Manjul Tripathi, David B. Anderson, James Harrop, Granit Molliqaj, Guy Wynne-Jones, Jose Joefrey Arbatin, So Kato, Manabu Ito, Jefferson Wilson, Ronie Romelean, Nicolas Dea, Daniel Graves, Enrico Tessitore, Allan R. Martin, Aria Nouri
A prospective multi-center study comparing the complication profile of modest systemic hypothermia versus normothermia for acute cervical spinal cord injury
Date: 06/2022
Authors: Aditya Vedantam, George Jimsheleishvili, James S. Harrop, Linda R. Alberga, Faiz U. Ahmad, Rory K. Murphy, J Benjamin Jackson, Richard B. Rodgers, Allan D. Levi
Improving Awareness Could Transform Outcomes in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 1]
Date: 02/2022
Authors: Benjamin M. Davies, Oliver Mowforth, Helen Wood, Zahabiya Karimi, Iwan Sadler, Lindsay Tetreault, Jamie Milligan, Jamie R. Wilson, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, Julio C. Furlan, Yoshiharu Kawaguchi, Manabu Ito, Carl Moritz Zipser, Timothy F. Boerger, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Rory K. Murphy, Mike Hutton, Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto, Paul A. Koljonen, James S. Harrop, Bizhan Aarabi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Shekar N. Kurpad, James D. Guest, Jefferson R. Wilson, Brian K. Kwon, Mark R. Kotter, Michael G. Fehlings
A scoping review of information provided within degenerative cervical myelopathy education resources: Towards enhancing shared decision making
Date: 01/2022
Authors: Rishi Umeria, Oliver Mowforth, Ben Grodzinski, Zahabiya Karimi, Iwan Sadler, Helen Wood, Irina Sangeorzan, Petrea Fagan, Rory Murphy, Rory K. Murphy, Angus McNair, Benjamin Davies
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Rory Murphy, MD, is a neurosurgeon and an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Murphy’s clinical practice focuses on the surgical treatment of complex cranial and spinal pathologies, including tumors and spinal cord compression, as well as peripheral nerve surgery. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), AO Spine, the Congress of Neurosurgeons (CNS), the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and the Cervical Spine Research Society Education Committee.
Dr. Murphy earned his medical degree from University College Cork in Ireland. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, and a clinical fellowship in functional neurosurgery at the University of California-San Francisco.
Dr. Murphy is active in translational cervical spinal cord injury research. He is the site principal investigator (PI) for the Department of Defense Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Trial and previously served as a PI for the Missouri Spinal Cord Injury Research Program. His research has been published in the journals Nature, Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, and Spine.
Office Location
Barrow Brain and Spine
19636 North 27th Avenue, Suite 203
Phoenix, AZ 85027
To request an appointment with Dr. Murphy, please call (623) 562-5050.
- Fellowship, University of California-San Francisco, Functional Neurosurgery, 2016-2017
- Residency, Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Neurosurgery, 2010-2016
- Basic surgical training, Royal College of Surgeons, 2008-2010
- Internship, Cork University Hospital, 2007-2008
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Cervical Spine Research Society Education Committee
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- Rosenman Innovator, University of California-San Francisco, 2017
- Bay Area Falling Walls Winner, Stanford University, 2016
- Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Section on Disorders of the Spine, 2016
- Augustus McCravey Resident Award, Southern Neurological Society, 2014
- Sanford Larson Research Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Section on Disorders of the Spine, 2014
- Spine Clinical Trial Proposal Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Section on Disorders of the Spine, 2013
Smart Spine Implants.
Date: 04/2024
Authors: Rory K. Murphy
Management of mild degenerative cervical myelopathy and asymptomatic spinal cord compression: an international survey
Date: 12/2023
Authors: Jamie F. Brannigan, Benjamin M. Davies, Oliver D. Mowforth, Ratko Yurac, Vishal Kumar, Joost Dejaegher, Juan J. Zamorano, Rory K. Murphy, Manjul Tripathi, David B. Anderson, James Harrop, Granit Molliqaj, Guy Wynne-Jones, Jose Joefrey Arbatin, So Kato, Manabu Ito, Jefferson Wilson, Ronie Romelean, Nicolas Dea, Daniel Graves, Enrico Tessitore, Allan R. Martin, Aria Nouri
A prospective multi-center study comparing the complication profile of modest systemic hypothermia versus normothermia for acute cervical spinal cord injury
Date: 06/2022
Authors: Aditya Vedantam, George Jimsheleishvili, James S. Harrop, Linda R. Alberga, Faiz U. Ahmad, Rory K. Murphy, J Benjamin Jackson, Richard B. Rodgers, Allan D. Levi
Improving Awareness Could Transform Outcomes in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 1]
Date: 02/2022
Authors: Benjamin M. Davies, Oliver Mowforth, Helen Wood, Zahabiya Karimi, Iwan Sadler, Lindsay Tetreault, Jamie Milligan, Jamie R. Wilson, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, Julio C. Furlan, Yoshiharu Kawaguchi, Manabu Ito, Carl Moritz Zipser, Timothy F. Boerger, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Rory K. Murphy, Mike Hutton, Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto, Paul A. Koljonen, James S. Harrop, Bizhan Aarabi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Shekar N. Kurpad, James D. Guest, Jefferson R. Wilson, Brian K. Kwon, Mark R. Kotter, Michael G. Fehlings
A scoping review of information provided within degenerative cervical myelopathy education resources: Towards enhancing shared decision making
Date: 01/2022
Authors: Rishi Umeria, Oliver Mowforth, Ben Grodzinski, Zahabiya Karimi, Iwan Sadler, Helen Wood, Irina Sangeorzan, Petrea Fagan, Rory Murphy, Rory K. Murphy, Angus McNair, Benjamin Davies
- English