Michael F. Murphy PhD, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPath

Mike Murphy is a Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Oxford and is a Consultant Haematologist for NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He provides the leadership for the hospital transfusion and immunohematology services for the Oxford University Hospitals. He qualified at St.Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London, where he completed his training in hematology and became a Senior Lecturer in hematology. In 1996, he moved to Oxford. The work done by he and his Oxford colleagues using technology to improve the safety and effectiveness of transfusion practice has won numerous national awards and serves as an exemplar for the NHS Quality, Innovation, and Productivity (QIPP) initiative. It was highlighted by the Chief Medical Officer in the 2015 NIHR Annual Report as a foolproof way of ensuring transfusion safety with potential savings of >£50 million/year if implemented across NHS. He is a recipient of the British Blood Transfusion Society's Kenneth Goldsmith Award and co-founded the NHSBT Clinical Studies Unit, its Systematic Reviews Initiative for transfusion medicine, and the Transfusion Evidence Library. 

He chaired a guideline on blood transfusion for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) which was published in November 2015. He is a Board Member and vice president of the American Association of Blood Banks. He has received numerous research grants and is the author of more than 250 articles. He is currently Chair of the international research group, the BEST Collaborative. He has co-edited all five editions of the textbook Practical Transfusion Medicine.