Education
Louisiana State University.
Louisiana State University.
She is the Higher Education Robbins Professor of Statistics & Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Michigan. In 2015 she gave the Bradley Lecture at the University of Georgia. She is known for her work applying statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions.
She grew up in rural Louisiana, and is "a serious hockey player." She graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Surgery and from the University of North Carolina with a Doctor of Philosophy
She is principal investigator at The Methodology Center, at Penn State.
She is developing "new methodologies to evaluate courses of treatment for individuals coping with chronic or relapsing disorders. Murphy’s Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a means for learning how best to dynamically adapt treatment to each individual’s response over time.
Using Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, clinicians assess and modify patients’ treatments during the trial, an approach with potential applications in the treatment of a range of chronic diseases—such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, alcoholism, drug addiction, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and cardiovascular disease—that involve therapies that are regularly reconsidered and replaced as the disease progresses.