Professor McMurray is currently Professor of Medical Cardiology and honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.
Professor McMurray served as the inaugural Eugene Braunwald Scholar in Cardiovascular Disease at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and visiting Professor of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2010/2011. He is a Past-President of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC.
He is a Highly Cited Researcher and has a H-index of >200. He is and has been involved in many guideline committees, including chairing the Task Force for 2012 ESC Guidelines on heart failure and was a member of the 2016 and 2021 Task Forces. Professor McMurray is an Associate Editor for JACC-Heart Failure and is also a member of the editorial board of several journals including the European Journal of Heart Failure, Diabetes Care and the New England Journal of Medicine, and Guest Editor for Circulation & Circulation: Heart Failure. He is the Congress Programme Committee Chair for the European Society of Cardiology 2023/2024 and European Society of Cardiology Board Member.
Professor McMurray was a member of the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Task Force that created a policy on gender and the NEJM policy group on diversity in research studies.
He has won several awards, including the Stokes Medal of the Irish Cardiac Society. In June 2015, Professor John McMurray and Professor Salim Yusuf (McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada) were jointly awarded the 8th Arrigo Recordati International Prize for Scientific Research (for outstanding contributions in secondary prevention and risk reduction strategies in patients with cardiovascular diseases).
Professor McMurray is the recipient of the Mackenzie Medal, which is awarded by the British Cardiovascular Society in recognition of outstanding service to British Cardiology. He is also the recipient of the Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases, which is awarded each year by McGill University, Montreal. This international award recognises outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases by a scientific investigator, or group of investigators, whose contribution to knowledge in this field is deemed worthy of special recognition.
Professor McMurray was awarded an (honorary) OBE in 2019 by Her Majesty the Queen, in recognition of his services to cardiovascular research. In 2020 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, which the society describes as “the highest honour it can bestow on exceptional scientists for their contribution to cardiovascular medicine”. In 2021 Professor McMurray received the Rigshospitalet’s International KFJ Award. In 2023 he was made an honorary fellow of the Japanese Circulation Society. Professor McMurray has been invited to lecture widely at many international congresses and delivered many several named lectures.
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