Dr. Laurel Murphy is an Emergency Physician and Intensivist at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. She previously served for five years as Program Director for Dalhousie’s Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program and has held a number of leadership roles in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

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Her academic interests focus on the interface between emergency and critical care medicine, including the impact of emergency department crowding and delays in access to critical care. Outside of medicine, Laurel can usually be found travelling, spending time at her cottage in Prince Edward Island, or keeping up with her four children.