Researchers´ Profiles - Neil Murphy

Dr. Neil Murphy’s areas of research interest include emerging diabetes among cultures in transition, gestational diabetes, fetal ultrasound biometry, and Arctic Native birth weights.

Dr. Murphy is currently a member of the medical staff at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Dr. Murphy is board certified in both Obstetrics/Gynecology and Family Medicine. 

Dr. Murphy has served as the President of the International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH) from 2003-2006, and had served as Vice President of the IUCH from 2000 - 2003.
Dr. Murphy had previously served as an IUCH Council member from 1998- 2000.

Dr. Murphy was the President of the American Society for Circumpolar Health (ASCH) 2000- 2008. Neil was previously the President Elect and Vice President of the American Society for Circumpolar Health from 1995 -2000.

Neil is the current Treasurer of the Albrecht-Milan Foundation – a Foundation for the improvement of Circumpolar education.

Dr. Murphy was a Scientific Editor of the International Journal of Circumpolar Health from 2000 - 2006.

Dr. Murphy has been active in the International Congresses on Circumpolar Health (ICCH) since 1987. Most recently, Dr. Murphy was the co-Chairman of ICCH13 in Novosibirsk, Siberia and the co-Editor of the ICCH13 Proceedings.

Dr. Murphy served as on the Scientific Program and the Planning Committees for the 10th International Congress on Circumpolar Health (ICCH) in Anchorage.  Neil had been on the International Planning Committee for ICCH 11 and ICCH12 and session chairman on several occasions.

Neil had worked in the Indian Health Service as a Family Physician at the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital in Bethel from 1985-87 and the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium-Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka from 1987-90. Neil has been practicing Obstetrics /Gynecology at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska since 1993.

• Murphy NJ. The Circumpolar Health Movement Comes Full Circle. Alaska Medicine 2007 49(2) Special Supplement: 3-7.

• Murphy NJ. The Circumpolar Health Movement Comes Full Circle. Alaska Medicine 2007 49(2):38-42.

• Murphy NJ. ICCH13 –The Gateway to Human Health in the International Polar Year. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2006; 65(4)292-4.

• Murphy NJ. The Circumpolar Health Movement Comes Full Circle: Part I Historical relevance of the proceedings of the International Congresses on Circumpolar Health. Int J Circumpolar Health 2005; 64(3):269-280.

• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Thiele MC, Boyko EJ, Bulkow LR, Doty BJ, Lanier AP. Hypertension in Alaska Natives: association with overweight, glucose intolerance, diet, and mechanized activity. Ethnicity and Health 1997; 2:267-276.
   
• Murphy NJ, Butler SW, Petersen KM, Heart V, Murphy CM. Tobacco erases 30 years of progress: Preliminary results of the effect of tobacco smoking on Alaska Native birth weight. Alaska Medicine 1996; 38:31-33.
   
• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Thiele MC, Boyko EJ, Bulkow LR, Doty BJ, Lanier AP. Dietary change and obesity associated with glucose intolerance in Alaska Natives. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1995; 95:676-682.
   
• Murphy NJ, Murphy CM, Lukey F, Hanaway PJ, Tan J. Antenatal diagnosis of a fetal mass containing a pelvis and limb bones. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. 1995; 8:491-493.
   
• Murphy NJ, Meyer BA, O’Kell RT, Hogard ME. Comparison of carbohydrate sources for gestational diabetes mellitus screening. Journal Of Reproductive Medicine 1994; 39:977-981.
   
• Murphy NJ, Meyer BA, O’Kell RT, Hogard ME.  Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus with a reflectance photometer: Accuracy and precision of the single operator model. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1994; 83:1038-42.
   
• Murphy NJ, Boyko EJ, Schraer CD, Bulkow LR, Lanier AP. Use of a reflectance photometer as a diabetes screening tool under field conditions. Arctic Medical Research 1993; 52:170-174.
   
• Murphy NJ, Wallace DL.  Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GNRH) agonist therapy for reduction of leiomyoma volume: Case report of leiomyosarcoma. Gynecologic Oncology 1993; 49:266-267.
   
• Murphy NJ, Wallace DL, Behrend AE.  Menometrorrhagia in an oral contraceptive user. Journal of Family Practice 1993; 36:229-231.
   
• Murphy NJ, Bulkow L, Schraer CD, Lanier AP. Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy among Yup’ik Eskimos, 1987-1988. Diabetes Care 1993; 16 (Supplement No. 1):315-317.
   
• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Bulkow L, Boyko EJ, Lanier AP.  Diabetes mellitus in Alaska Yup’ik Eskimos and Athabascan Indians after 25 years. Diabetes Care 1992; 15:1390-1392.
   
• Murphy NJ, McClure C. Family Practice residents’ documentation of clinical skills. J Med Ed 1988; 63:798-800.
   
• Murphy NJ, Weiss BD. Documenting training and experience during Family Practice residency. Family Medicine 1987; 19:39-40.
   
• Murphy NJ. Giardiasis in Alaska, 1969-1979: A descriptive epidemiologic study. Alaska Medicine 1981; 23:22-27.

Peer Reviewed - Co-author

• Parkinson AJ, Orr P, Murphy N. International Polar Year: Arctic Human Health Initiative. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2006; 65(4)284-289.

• Smith DW, Murphy NJ  Alaska's obstetrical delivery systems: A descriptive epidemiologic study. Alaska Medicine 2000; 42(3)78-84.
   
• MacLehose RF, Harpster A, Lanier AP, Shiff MA, Koehler K, Murphy N, Becker TM. Risk factors for cervical intraepithelial neoplasm in Alaska Native Women: A pilot study. Alaska Medicine 2000; 41(4):76-85.
   
• Adler AI, Boyko EJ, Schraer CD, Murphy NJ. The negative association between traditional phyisical activities and glucose intolerance in Alaska Natives. Diabetic Medicine 1996; 13:555-560.
   
• Adler AI, Boyko EJ, Schraer CD, Murphy NJ. Lower prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes associated with daily seal oil or salmon consumption among Alaska Natives. Diabetes Care 1994 17:1498-1501
   
• Schraer CD, Bulkow L, Murphy NJ, Lanier AP. Diabetes incidence, complications, and changing prevalence among Alaska Natives. Diabetes Care 1993; 16 (Supplement No. 1):257-259.
   
• Bergus GR, Murphy NJ. Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus: Comparison of a glucose polymer and monomer test beverage. J Am Board Fam Pract 1992; 5:241-247.
   
• Schraer CD, Lanier AP, Boyko EJ, Gohdes D, Murphy NJ. Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Alaska Eskimos, Indians, and Aleuts. Diabetes Care 1988; 11:693-700.

Book and Journal Editorship

• Editor, Circumpolar Health 2006: Gateway to the International Polar Year Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Circumpolar Health Edited by Neil Murphy and Sergey Krivoschekov
  Alaska Medicine April / May / June 2007 49(2) Special Supplement, 275 pages Indexed in Index Medicus and online at: http://soramn.ru/ICCH13/Proceedings_13/

• PRECIS: Primary and Preventive Care, Editorial Board, Fourth Edition, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, D.C., 2007- present

• Evidence Grading Editor, Reference Text: ACOG / IHS Postgraduate Course on Obstetrics, Neonatology, and Gynecology. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Washington, D.C. 2003- present

• Scientific Editor, International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2000-present
  

• PROLOG: Patient Management in the Office, Editorial Board,  Fifth Edition, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, D.C. 2005 – 2006.

• Clinical Updates in Women's Health, Editorial Board, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, D.C., 2001-2005.
  
  
• Associate Editor, Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Course Syllabus. 4th Edition. Eisinger SH, Damos JR (Eds.)  American Academy of Family Physicians.  Leawood, Kansas.  2000 - 2001
   

Peer Review Activity

Peer Review / Manuscripts

• Diabetes Care: 2001- present - present
• Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2004 – present
• US Preventive Services Task Force: 2000-present
• Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved: 2004
• IHS Primary Care Provider: 1996, 1999, 2004
• Family Medicine: 2002, 2004
• American Heart Association: 2000
• Clineguide Knowledge System: 2002 http://www.ovid.com/products/clinical/clineguide.cfm
• Challenger Video Atlas: Cesarean Delivery, 2003
• Alaska Medicine: 1986-7
• National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel, Community Level Health Promotion – Non-Interventions, Health of the Population, 2004

Book Chapters-First author

• Murphy NJ. Chapter: Diabetes in Pregnancy. In ACOG / IHS Postgraduate Course on Obstetrics, Neonatology, and Gynecology. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Washington, D.C. (2005) Revision.

• Murphy NJ. Chapter: Diabetes in Pregnancy. In ACOG / IHS Postgraduate Course on Obstetrics, Neonatology, and Gynecology. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Washington, D.C. (2003)
   
• Murphy NJ  Chapter: Diabetes in Pregnancy. In ACOG / IHS Postgraduate Course on Obstetrics, Neonatology, and Gynecology. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Washington, D.C. (2001)
   
• Murphy NJ, Burke TJ, Garnett BA  Chapter: Cesarean Delivery. In Twenty Common Problems: Surgical Problems and Procedures in Primary Care. Lynge D, Weiss, BW (Eds.) New York. McGraw Hill, 2001: 383-420.
   
• Murphy NJ, Reed S.  Chapter: Maternal Resuscitation. In Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Course Syllabus. 4th Edition. Damos JR and Eisinger SH (Eds.) American Academy of Family Physicians. Leawood, Kansas. 2000
   
• Murphy NJ, Deutchman M  Chapter: Cesarean Delivery. In Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Course Syllabus. 4th Edition. Damos JR and Eisinger SH (Eds.) American Academy of Family Physicians. Leawood, Kansas. 2000
   
• Murphy NJ, Kuhnley R, Baden D.  Chapter: Urinary-Reproductive. In Community Health Aide / Practitioner Manual, Third Edition. Alaska Native Health Board 1998:249-300.
   
• Murphy NJ. Diabetes and pregnancy in Alaska Natives: Prevalence and Socio-cultural aspects. In Joe JR, Young RS, eds. Diabetes as a disease of civilization: The impact of culture change on indigenous peoples. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993: 195-228.

Book Chapters - Co-author

• Deutchman M, Murphy NJ. Chapter 18 Section G: Cesarean Delivery, 2008: 560 -571. In Family Medicine Obstetrics, 3nd Edition. Radcliffe SD, Baxley EG, Cline M, Sakornbut EL (Eds.) Philadelphia, PA, Mosby Elsevier.

• Murphy NJ. - Content Contributor
  Chapter: Emergency Childbirth. In Community Health Aide / Practitioner Manual, Fourth Edition. Alaska Native Health Board  2006:119-144.
  
  
• Murphy NJ. - Content Contributor
  Chapter: Female Reproductive. In Community Health Aide / Practitioner Manual, Fourth Edition. Alaska Native Health Board  2006:511-562.
  
  
• Murphy NJ. - Content Contributor
  Chapter: Pregnancy. In Community Health Aide / Practitioner Manual, Fourth Edition. Alaska Native Health Board  2006:563-616.
  
  
• Deutchman M, Murphy NJ  Chapter: Cesarean Delivery. In Family Practice Obstetrics, 2nd Edition. Radcliffe SD, Baxley EG, Byrd JE, Sakornbut EL. (Eds.) Philadelphia. Hanley and Belfus. 2001: 537-550.
   
• Deutchman M, Murphy NJ  Chapter: Cesarean Delivery for Family Physicians. In Clinics of Family Practice: Maternity Care. Wolkomir MS, Bower DJ. (Eds.). 2001: June, Vol. 3, No. 2; 429-454. WB Saunders, Philadelphia.
   
• Eisinger SH, Murphy NJ. Chapter: Medical Complications of Pregnancy. In Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Course Syllabus. Third Edition. American Academy of Family Physicians. Kansas City, Missouri. 1996.
   
• LeMaire W, Skannes P, Vastola D, Murphy NJ. Chapter: Pregnancy and Childbirth. In Community Health Aide / Practitioner Manual, Third Edition. Alaska Native Health Board 1998:173-248.

Proceedings: First author

• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Holck PS, Lanier AP. One step gestational diabetes screening: Preliminary results in Alaska Natives. 11th International Congress on Circumpolar Health. Proceedings Abstract # 361 June 2000
   
• Murphy NJ, Butler SW, Petersen, KM, Heart V, Murphy CM.  Tobacco erases 30 years of progress: Effect of tobacco smoking on Alaska Native birth weight. 47th American Association for the Advancement of Science Arctic Division Science Conference. Proceedings Abstract page 36. September,1996.
   
• Murphy NJ, Butler SW, Petersen, KM, Heart V, Murphy CM.  Large mean birth weight among Alaska Natives. Tenth International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract # 290. May,1996.
   
• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Theile MC, Boyko EJ, Doty BJ, Lanier AP.  Hypertension in Alaska Natives: Association with overweight, glucose intolerance, diet and mechanized activity. Tenth International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract # 291. May,1996.
   
• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Fleming M, Murphy CM. Birth weight among Alaska Natives: Effect of diabetes in pregnancy. 3rd Annual International Conference on Diabetes in Indigenous Peoples, Proceedings Abstract # 92. May,1995.
   
• Murphy NJ, Meyer BA, O’Kell RT, Hogard ME.  Comparison of carbohydrate sources for gestational diabetes mellitus screening. Missouri Perinatal Association Proceedings, 1993.
   
• Murphy NJ, Meyer BA, O’Kell RT, Hogard ME.  Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus with a reflectance photometer. Missouri Perinatal Association Proceedings, 1993.
   
• Murphy NJ, Bulkow L, Schraer CD, Lanier AP.  Prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Yup’ik Eskimos and Alaskan Coastal Indians, 1987-1988. Circumpolar Health 90. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, Arctic Med Res. 1991;Suppl:423-6.
   
• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD, Boyko EJ, Lanier AP, Bulkow L.  Twenty-five year follow-up of diabetes mellitus in Alaska Yup’ik Eskimo. 8th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract # 350, page 55. May 1990.
   
• Murphy NJ, Brown HJ, Silimperi DR. Review of Yup’ik traditional healing methods: Empirico-rational and spiritual / mental health aspects. 7th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract #78, page 52. June 1987.
   
• Murphy NJ, Knott L, Schraer CD.  Preliminary results of screening for gestational diabetes mellitus at the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital. 7th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract #339, page 52. June 1987.
   
• Murphy NJ, Schraer CD. Field testing of a portable reflectance meter glucose monitoring device in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Region of Alaska in winter conditions. 7th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract # 294, page 52. June 1987.

Proceedings: Co-author

• Gilson GJ, Murphy NJ.  Comparison of oral glyburide with insulin for the management of gestational diabetes in Alaska Native women. Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, Abstract 336, February 2003
   
• Gilson GJ, Murphy NJ. Comparison of oral glyburide with insulin for the management of gestational diabetes in Alaska Native women. Association of American Indian Physicians, August 2002
   
• Schraer CD, Murphy NJ, Jarin E, Jay A. Decreased rate of gestational diabetes mellitus following nutrition education in Alaska Natives. Proceedings Abstract # 126. 3rd International Conference on Diabetes and Indigenous Peoples, May 1995.
   
• Adler A, Boyko E, Schraer C, Murphy N. Daily consumption of seal oil or salmon associated with lower risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in Yup’ik Eskimo and Athabaskan Indians of Alaska. Arctic Medical Research 53: Suppl 2, 271-5, 1994.
   
• Adler A, Boyko E, Schraer C, Murphy N.  Lower prevalence of glucose intolerance associated with traditional physical activities Among Alaska Natives. Society of Epidemiologic Research. Proceedings Abstract # 283, June 1993.
   
• Adler A, Boyko E, Schraer C, Murphy N.  Lower prevalence of glucose intolerance associated with traditional physical activities among Alaska Natives. Am J Epid 1993;138:633-634.
   
• Schraer CD, Murphy NJ.  The occurrence of diabetes and it’s complications among Alaska Natives. 8th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract #245, page 38. May 1990.
   
• Schraer CD, Boyko EJ, Murphy NJ. Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Alaska Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians. 7th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Proceedings Abstract. June 1987.

Publications, Independent Publication - Non-Peer Review

• Chief Clinical Consultant’s Corner Digest, Editor, Distributed nationally by mail: December 2004 - 2008
  IHS Primary Care Provider: Monthly Contribution - November 2003 – present

• Chief Clinical Consultant’s Corner – Full length newsletter, Editor, Online February 2003 – 2008
  http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/M/OBGYN01.cfm

• Chief Clinical Consultant’s Corner, Monthly Columnist, Online, Hard Copy, and Digest in the IHS Primary Care Provider

Publications, Non-Peer Review: Invited Commentary: First author

• Murphy NJ. Hopefully not a bygone era (19 June 2003)  Ann Fam Med. For - Leeman L, Leeman R. A Native American Community with a 7% Cesarean Delivery Rate: Does Case Mix, Ethnicity, or Labor Management Explain the Low Rate? Ann Fam Med 2003; 1: 36-43.

• Murphy NJ. Choices: Lack of improved outcome vs Super saver airline tickets (4 June 2006) Ann Fam Med. For - Leeman LM, Plante LA. Patient-choice vaginal delivery? Ann Fam Med. 2006 May-Jun;4(3):265-8.

Publications, Non-Peer Review, Radio, Other: First author

• Murphy NJ. OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant’s Corner.  IHS Primary Care Provider 2003; November 28(11):243-50 and monthly thereafter to the present.

• Murphy NJ. Native America Calling, “HPV Education” Kaohnic Broadcast Corporation, National Electronic Talking Circle, March 10, 2006.

• Murphy NJ. The New Improved Perinatalogist Corner.  IHS Primary Care Provider 2003; April 28(9):212-3.

• Murphy NJ. The New Improved Perinatalogist Corner.  IHS Primary Care Provider 2003; April 28(4):84-5.

• Murphy NJ. Perinatalogist Corner: Case based, online CME available on maternity issues. IHS Primary Care Provider 2002; February 27(2):32-3.

• Murphy NJ, Meyer BA, O’Kell RT, Hogard ME. Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus with a reflectance photometer: Accuracy and precision of the single operator model. Clinical Diabetes 1995; July/August:71-72 (Abstracted review by Morrison JC. Univ of Mississippi Medical Center, Dept OB/GYN)
  
  
• Murphy NJ, Meyer BA, O’Kell RT, Hogard ME. Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus with a reflectance photometer: Accuracy and precision of the single operator model. Obstetrics and Gynecology
  (Letter)1994; 84:639-641.
  
  
• Murphy NJ. Diabetes in the Far North: Lessons from the past. Diabetes Forecast 1991; 44:46-50.
  
  
• Murphy, NJ. Hematospermia. Physician’s Radio Network, Stamford Connecticut, 1986.
  
  
• Murphy NJ. Alaska Native newborns at risk. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, KUAC Radio, Arctic Science Journeys. Voice of America, 1996.
  
  
• Murphy NJ, Weiss BD. Hematospermia. American Family Physician 1985; 2:167-171.

Publications, Non-Peer Review, Radio, Other: Co-author

• Deutchman ME, Murphy NJ. Cesarean Delivery: Clinical Monograph. Challenger Clinical Training, Evaluation, and Validation September 2003.

• Gilson GJ, Murphy NJ, Attico B. Diabetes in pregnancy, Part 1: Screening and diagnosis. IHS Primary Care Provider 2003; April 28(4): 86-93.

• Gilson GJ, Murphy NJ, Attico B. Diabetes in pregnancy, Part 2: Management, Delivery, and Postpartum. IHS Primary Care Provider 2003; September 28(9):200-207.
  
  

Neil J. Murphy, M.D.
Women’s Health Service, Southcentral Foundation
Alaska Native Medical Center
4320 Diplomacy Drive, PCC-WH
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
USA
nmurphy@scf.cc