Johnny McMurray

Enthusiastic medical and engineering student who is eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Passion for innovation in finding needs and developing solutions to problems.

President/Founding member of the Interprofessional Global and Public Health Society (IGPHS)

Texas A&M Health Science Center Organization focused on educating students about topics in global health and providing hands on experience. Manage teams of students to run marketing, financial, activities, and trip planning endeavors of organization. Planning international medical humanitarian trips to Peru and a domestic trip to southern Texas.

Global Health Trip to Yantalo Hospital in Peru

Participated in a global health trip to a rural servine hospital in Peru. Activities focused on assisting in the OR for cleft-palate surgeries, participating in clinic, and helping with rural pediatric outreach clinics.

Medical School Campus Community Service Representative

Responsible for helping classmates achieve their required service hours. In addition, responsibilities include reaching out to local non-profits, organizing service projects, and beginning service initiatives among class.

Senior Engineering Capstone: GE Healthecare Automated Test Bench

Worked closely with a team of 6 other engineering students to make an automated test bench for GE Healthcare's C-Arm X-Ray Machine. Responsible primarily in leading software development. Competent in Arduino, C, C++, Java.

Intern for Bloom (formerly eKutir&Fairtrasa Global)

Worked with a team of 3 other students to research and develop and entrance strategy for e&F Global to expand into 6 additional countries in the next few years. Met weekly with CEO of company to deliver reports and give status updates. Deliverable: Report outline regulatory hurdles and potential partnerships in various countries and a proposed entrance strategy

Enventure ENRICH Fellow

Student program that provides the chance to work with pioneering life science companies and provide deliverables such as market research, technical writing, and financial reports to start ups and more established companies in the Houston area Houston Methodist-

EnMed Capstone Project Grant Recipient

Recipient of a grant provided by Houston Methodist to work on a project titled "Cellular Delivery of mRNA using a Novel Electroporation Platform" with Dr. John Cooke as a supervisor.

Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Volunteer

As a CASA Volunteer I am going to be assigned to help advocate for an abused or neglected child as they navigate their way through the complicated court system. I am currently in training for this opportunity.

• Wall T, McMurray J, Meena G, Ganjalizadeh V, Schmidt H, Hawkins AR. Optofluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Fluorescence Sensor Using Integrated Buried ARROW (bARROW) Waveguides. Micromachines. 2017; 8(8):252. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi8080252
• M. A. Stott, Ganjalizadeh V, Olsen M, Orfila M, McMurray J, Schmidt H, Hawkins AR. "Optimized ARROW-Based MMI Waveguides for High Fidelity Excitation Patterns for Optofluidic Multiplexing," in IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 1-7, June 2018, Art no. 6200107, doi: 10.1109/JQE.2018.2816120.
• Stott, M. A., Ganjalizadeh, V., Meena, G., McMurray, J., Olsen, M., Orfila, M., Schmidt, H., & Hawkins, A. R. (2018). Buried Rib SiO2 Multimode Interference Waveguides for Optofluidic Multiplexing. IEEE photonics technology letters : a publication of the IEEE Laser and Electro-optics Society, 30(16), 1487–1490. https://doi-org.srv-proxy1.library.tamu.edu/10.1109/LPT.2018.2858258
• Yun Li, James Zhang, Ramya Varadarajan, Bobby Loving, Johnny McMurray, Austin Hagen, Nick Sears, David Zawieja, Burton Dickey, Daniel Novak, Ian V.J. Murray (2022) Breathing life into respiratory physiology Team-Based Learning (TBL) via student-built devices. Innovations in Medical Education (IME) Online Conference 2022.