Karly Murphy, MD, MHS, MSc
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Murphy is a general internist and clinician investigator whose research focuses on improving physical health care delivery for patients with comorbid serious mental illness and reducing gaps in care quality that disproportionately affect this population.

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She completed residency training in the Johns Hopkins Osler Internal Medicine Program and the Urban Health Primary Care track, where she developed her clinical interests in caring for marginalized populations, and then completed a general medicine fellowship where she gained advanced training in epidemiology and clinical research. She is interested in using health services research methods, mixed-methods, and implementation science to address gaps in care quality and care processes. Dr. Murphy studies cancer screening and chronic disease management as models of care quality and the strategizes to improve coordination between primary care and mental health providers. She also has ongoing work focused on implicit bias and populations with serious mental illness.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2022
  • General Internal Medicine Fellowship Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 2020
  • MHS Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2019
  • Residency Internal Medicine/Primary Care Johns Hopkins Medicine 2017
  • MD Medicine Harvard Medical School 2014
  • MSc Biomedical Science National University of Ireland, Galway 2007
  • BA Biochemistry Kenyon College 2006

Interests

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  • coordination of care
  • implementation science
  • care delivery
  • cancer screening
  • serious mental illness
  • health services
  • chronic conditions
  • mental illness
  • primary care

Publications (2)

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Mental DisordersContinuity of Patient CareCardiovascular DiseasesDiabetes MellitusHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicCholesterol