2019 Dean's Alumni Awards - Dr. Murray B. Urowitz, Lifetime Achievement Award for Global Impact

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine presented the Dean's Alumni Awards on June 1, 2019. Dr. Murray B. Urowitz is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Global Impact.
Dr. Murray B. Urowitz, MD ’63, has helped change the way lupus is diagnosed and managed, establishing the University of Toronto Lupus Clinic and Lupus Databank Research Program in 1970 - now recognized as one of the world’s premier clinical and research centres for this autoimmune disease. He has also helped create the University of Toronto Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, as well as the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics, published over 400 peer-reviewed papers and trained close to 140 rheumatology trainees and clinical research fellows.
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