MURPHY
Gregory

• 1. Career
• 1.1. Medical
• 1.2. North Carolina General Assembly

Gregory Francis Murphy is an American politician and urologist representing North Carolina's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019. He served as a representative in the North Carolina General Assembly from 2015 to 2019.

Career

Medical

Murphy has traveled as a medical missionary. When he was 20 years old, he spent a summer in Bihar, India, working in a Catholic leprosy hospital. Murphy performed medical missionary work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Murphy served as president of a medical practice and also as Chief of Staff of Vidant Medical Center. He was a member of the faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and served as Davidson College Alumni President from 2015 to 2017 while also serving on the board of trustees.

In 2017, Murphy received a Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Association of Clinical Urologists.

In 2019, Murphy received a Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

North Carolina General Assembly

Murphy was appointed to the North Carolina General Assembly in November 2015 and served the 9th District of Pitt County, to finish the term of Brian Brown, who had resigned.

On November 8, 2016, he was elected to the seat, defeating Brian Farkas with 22,540 votes (57.52%) to Farkas's 16,648 (42.48%).

Murphy was reelected in 2018, defeating Kristoffer (Kris) Rixon.

During his second term in the General Assembly, Murphy served as Senior Chair of Health Policy and championed several health care initiatives. In 2017, he introduced the STOP Act (Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention Act), North Carolina's first major legislative initiative to confront the opioid epidemic. Murphy then introduced the HOPE Act, which helped law enforcement curtail drug trafficking. These two initiatives, along with other interventions, were credited with reducing North Carolina's opioid overdose deaths for the first time in over a decade.

Murphy introduced legislation that helped veterans get access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy as treatment for traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. After the deaths of three newborns in eastern North Carolina, he introduced legislation to improve birthing standards for birth centers in North Carolina.