Dr. Murray is an academic and public health researcher focused on implementing and evaluating intimate partner violence programs in the pediatric healthcare setting.
As Director of the STOP IPV Program at CHOP, Dr. Murray has extensive experience leading and evaluating hospital-wide initiatives aimed at improving how we address family experiences with intimate partner violence (IPV) in the pediatric clinical setting. She has been working collaboratively with our community partners, Lutheran Settlement House (LSH) and Laurel House (LH), for the past 10 years and through these partnerships she and her colleagues have expanded the STOP IPV Program at CHOP and refined the program based on research informatics and quality improvement efforts.
Dr. Murray also serves as Director of Advocacy and Health Equity in the Division of Emergency Medicine, in which she has worked to formalize and expand community and advocacy efforts in the Division of Emergency Medicine. The overall goal of the Section of Advocacy and Health Equity is to provide the infrastructure for service, training, and leadership opportunities to promote advocacy activities and collaboration. Dr. Murray and her colleagues have developed a tracking tool to catalogue work conducted by ED staff, conducted an advocacy educational needs assessment, designed, implemented and supported numerous Division-wide advocacy activities, and streamlined social media communications.
Furthermore, as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Health Initiatives and faculty in the Masters of Public Health program at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Murray contributes to public health research dissemination and training public health students in their professional and research development. She continues to receive funding to support her own public health research, with a focus on IPV and quality improvement.
BA, Lafayette College (Music), 2005
BS, Lafayette College (Neuroscience), 2005
MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2009
Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Pediatric Emergency Medicine), 2015
MPH, University of Pennsylvania (Public Health), 2017
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Director of Advocacy and Health Equity for the DoEM
Center for Violence Prevention Practice-based Scholar
Director of the STOP IPV Program
American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009-
American Medical Association, 2009-
Academic Pediatric Association, 2012-
Health Advocacy Award, Lutheran Settlement House, 2016
Early Career Faculty Honor Roll Awardee, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2019
Dr. David Kornfeld Lectureship in General Pediatrics Awardee, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2019
Faculty Honor Roll, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2020
Health Advocate of the Year Award, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children), Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Mancheno, C, Aumair, B, Murray, A. Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in a Pediatric ED: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2019. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001913.
Bautista, AV, Obenschain, KC, Potterton, JT, Murray, AL. Trauma-informed Hospital Security: A Policy for Intimate Partner Violence in a Pediatric Healthcare Setting. Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy. 2021. doi:10.21037/jhmhp-20-152.
Randell, KA, Jarvis, LF, Murray, AL, Jackson, AM, Dowd, MD. A National Survey of Intimate Partner Violence Policy and Practice in U.S. Children's Hospitals. Journal of Family Violence. 2023. Doi: 10.1007/s10896-022-00384-8.
Ragavan, MI, Murray, A. Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors and Their Children in Pediatric Healthcare Settings. Pediatric Clinics of North America. December 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2023.06.016.
Kasa, L, Alexander,K Obenschain, K, Joshi, P, Murray, A. Exploring the Impact of Race on Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department. Pediatric Emergency Care. November 2024, doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000003255.
If we don’t ask, who will? Advocating for IPV screening. (PolicyLab Blog, June 2018)