Infectious Diseases Director

Barbara E. Murray, MD

Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens

Barbara E. Murray, MD, is a 1969 cum laude graduate in mathematics from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and graduated first in her class (Ho Din Award and AOA) from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1973. She then spent six years training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, followed by six months in Thailand conducting research at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences.

She joined the faculty at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston as an assistant professor in 1980, rose through the ranks to Professor by 1990, became Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases in 1995 and the J. Ralph Meadows Professor in 2003. She is also co-director of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens.