Mike E. Murray

BA University of Illinois 1959

MD University of Illinois College of Medicine 1962

Residency in Internal Medicine Milwaukee County General Hospital 1962-66

Captain and Physician. 72nd Bombardment Wing, United States Eighth Air Force, Strategic Air Command 1966-68. Established and commanded clinic for general officers on Fridays, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico.

Board Certified in Internal Medicine 1970

Professional Societies: American College of Cardiology
Fellow of the American College of Physicians

Internist, Weber Medical Clinic 1968-93

Established Richland Memorial Hospital Intensive Care Unit in 1970. Director of Unit until 1993

Established Olney Medical Clinic 1995

East Richland Board of Education 1971-74

Member and President, Wabash Valley Interstate Commission 1974-79

Member and Chairman, Illinois State Medical Society Ethics Committee 1972-76.

I fell from the outer parapet wall of the papal palace in Avignon, France, while watching a military parade on Bastille Day, 1997, sustaining multiple injuries requiring air evacuation to the United States. I now hold the Midwestern United States record for Castle Fall survival

Strategic Air Command Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico 1966-68.
Captain and Internal Medicine Specialist. Appointed base psychiatrist by hospital commander despite lack of any psychiatric training. In the latter capacity I saved all of you from a third world war by identifying a B 52 pilot who planned to bomb Moscow on his own volition