John Frederic Murray (June 8, 1927 – March 24, 2020) was an American pulmonologist best known for his work on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which was responsible for his death after he fell ill with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As its secretary general, he extended the scope of the organisation to diseases other than TB, and made its membership much less exclusive.
[4] After his father moved the family to Los Angeles and after a period of wartime national service in the US navy as a radar engineer, Murray entered Stanford University and then the Stanford University Medical School, graduating in 1953.
[1] He was a Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine[5] and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care at San Francisco General Hospital from 1966 to 1989.
[1] After retiring from his full-time positions, he lived part-time in France with his wife, the writer Diane Johnson, where he died in Paris after being infected by COVID-19.