Dr. Murray Urowitz has been a senior staff rheumatologist at the Toronto Western Hospital and Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute since 1995.  He is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases and the University of Toronto and the Lupus Clinic at the Toronto Western Hospital.

Dr. Urowitz has published over 270 peer-reviewed papers and 40 book chapters and has supervised the training of over 100 fellows in rheumatology. His teaching excellence is exemplified by having won the Outstanding Clinical Teacher award in a remarkable eight times and he was the Associate Dean of Post-graduate Medical Education with the University of Toronto between 1995 and 2005.   This life long commitment to medical education has resulted in his being the recipient of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 2004 Duncan Graham Award.

Dr Urowitz was a founding member of the Ontario Lupus Association (now Lupus Ontario). He was president of the Lupus Council of the American Rheumatology Association, a founding member of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) group and currently directs the SLICC Registry for Atherosclerosis.   In 1995 he was the recipient of the Distinguished Rheumatologist Award of the Canadian Rheumatology Association and in 2009 he was recipient of the Evelyn V. HESS Award for outstanding contributions to lupus research, awarded by the Lupus Foundation of America.  He has been an invited speaker around the world.