Laurel Murrow, MD
Laurel Murrow, MD
Laurel Murrow, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Russell Hall 150
1425 Prince Avenue
Athens, GA 30602
Education
Internal Medicine Residency, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2006-2009
MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 2006
MSc, Control of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England, 1999
BA, Religion, magna cum laude, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA,1997
Honors / Awards / Achievements
Shining Star of Community Achievement for Community Health Curriculum, Association of American Medical Colleges, GRMC 2013
Service Learning Fellow, University of Georgia, 2010
Phi Beta Kappa, 1996
National Harry S. Truman Scholar, 1995
Selected Publications
Crites GE, Murrow L, Gaines JK, Stowe J, Richardson WS. Using Randomized Controlled Trials for Treatment Decisions. MedEdPORTAL Publications; 2016.
Crites GE, Stowe J, Murrow L, Gaines JK, Richardson WS. Using Evidence to Inform Prognosis Decisions. MedEdPORTAL Publications; 2015. Available from:
Murrow L, Crites G, Goggans D, Gamedines J, Stowe J, Richardson W. Using Evidence to Inform Risk or Harm Decisions. MedEdPORTAL Publications; 2014.
Stone JH, Holbrook JT, Marriott MA, Tibbs AK, Sejismundo LP, Min YI, Specks U, Merkel PA, Spiera R, Davis JC, St Clair EW, McCune WJ, Ytterberg SR, Allen NB, Hoffman GS; Wegener’s Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial Research Group. Solid malignancies among patients in the Wegener’s Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 May;54(5):1608-18.
Wegener’s Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial (WGET) Research Group. Etanercept plus standard therapy for Wegener’s granulomatosis. N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 27;352(4):351-61.
Watt JP, O’Brien KL, Katz S, Brondsdon MA, Elliott J, Dallas J, Perilla MJ, Reid R, Murrow L, Facklam R, Santosham M, Whitney CG. Nasopharyngeal versus oropharyngeal sampling for detection of pneumococcal carriage in adults. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Nov; 42(11): 4974-6.
Educational Activities
Site Clerkship Director of Ambulatory Medicine, AU/UGA Medical Partnership, 2021-present
Outpatient faculty preceptor, Piedmont Community Care Clinic, 2016-present
Associate Program Director, Piedmont Internal Medicine Residency, 2015-2021
Faculty for Clinical Skills & Community Health, Medical Partnership, 2009-2018
Scholarship & Research
Access to care for underserved patients
Outpatient quality improvement
Health literacy