N. MICHAEL MURPHY, MD
Tralahan Cottage, Tallon Road, Castletownbere, West Cork, Ireland & 1268 Lock 7 Road, Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA Email: mmurphy103@eircom.net Born: Manchester, England                                              Citizenship: Irish and US
Education:
	Doctor of Medicine MB, BCh. - University College. Dublin, Ireland Medical School - University College. Dublin. Undergraduate - Stonyhurst College. Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Current Appointments:
	1986 - Present: Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College. Albany, New York 1997 - Present: Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, Albany Medical College. Albany, New York June ‘95 - Present: Consultant, Speaker, Writer and Workshop facilitator. Founder, The Love, Loss & Forgiveness Project
Other Positions:
	June ’95-present Multiple locum tenens in psychiatry appointments in NY State. June ‘79 - June ’95:  Founder & Medical Director, St. Peter's Hospice. Albany, New York Nov. ‘68 - June ’79:  Staff Psychiatrist & Deputy Director, Capital District Psychiatric Center. Albany, New York March ‘66- Nov ’68: Assistant Superintendent, Boston State Hospital. Boston, MA Jan 64- March 66: Senior Staff Psychiatrist Boston State Hospital, Boston MA Jan. ‘61-Jan 64: Residency in Psychiatry Boston State Hospital Boston, MA
Academic Qualifications:
	1975: M.R.C. Psychiatry Mar. 25, 1969: New York Licensure # 103254 December 1966: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology # 9154
Hospice Experience and Workshop Facilitation and current work:
	June 1979: Founder & Medical Director of St. Peter’s Hospice in Albany, NY. Workshops (entitled Dying and Death: An Invitation to the Soul, now entitled On Love, Loss & Forgiveness)have been offered for more than fifteen years to caregivers, general audiences, physicians and medical students in Belgium, France, Holland and Ireland, as well as the U.S. Two videos, “Walk Me to the Water” (John Seakwood, New Lebanon, MA, ‘82) and “When All Is Said and Done” (Joe Levinger, Vox Populi Productions, Watertown, MA, Feb. ‘95). Numerous lectures in the U.S., as well as in universities and medical schools in Europe (including Dublin, London, Paris, Brussels, Liège, Bruges, Ghent, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Subjects include: Dying, Bereavement & Grief; The Family Meeting; Ethical Issues at the End of Life; Pain and Other Symptoms in Life-Threatening Illness; Relationships: Aging and the Quality of Care — Family Terrorism. A book on the seminars and hospice work, The Wisdom of Dying: Practices for Living, was published for a general audience by Element Books in September 1999. Nine-month training programs on Love, Loss & Forgiveness, begun in Belgium and Holland in 1997 designed to prepare parents, teachers, health care practitioners, ministers and anyone else who gives care to others for their life work of self-care and care of others.  This training was the forerunner of the Home-based curriculum for the Love, Loss, and Forgiveness Project. Secrets of Love, Loss & Forgiveness: a drug-free prescription for the loving life will be published in 2008.  The book is designed for the general public and will augment the Love, Loss & Forgiveness Project and the five-part film series.