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He donates his time to high school athletes and also runs a free clinic on Saturday mornings in the fall of each year for high school athletes who have been injured in Friday night football games.ĭr. Murphy is also the team physician for Cathedral Catholic High School and Saint Augustine High School. He would be responsible for instructing student athletic trainers at the University in his role as head team physician.ĭr. At the University of San Diego, he would be responsible for caring for all of the athletes who participate in Division I sports including men's football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball. He would then become a head team physician for the University of San Diego. He would continue his role as team doctor for the Chargers until 2002. Murphy would become one of the team orthopedic surgeons for the San Diego Chargers in 1994 and became the head team doctor in 1998. He has become known as the Supercross doctor.ĭr. He would treat the legends of Supercross including Jeremy McGrath, Mike LaRocco, Bubba Stewart, Ricky Carmichael, and many others. Murphy would care for trauma patients regularly, at Sharp Memorial Hospital, which led to his association with the sport of Supercross in the early 1990s. He would also be mobilized to serve in Desert Storm in 1991. His career lead him to serve in the United States Navy as an orthopedic surgeon in Naples where he was head of the Department of Orthopedics for two years. He obtained a CAQ (Certificate of Added Qualification) in Sports Medicine in 2012 from the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). He completed his residency in San Diego in 1985, and was Board Certified in 1987 and recertified in 19. He specializes in sportsmedicine and arthroscopic surgery. Murphy is an orthopedic surgeon who has practiced in San Diego since 1988.

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