Dr. Murray-García is a pediatrician, and Health Sciences Clinical Professor Emerita at the UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. She co-founded with Dr. Melanie Tervalon and is writing a textbook on the internationally recognized concept of Cultural Humility. To achieve equity goals in patient care, population health, health professions education, and systems-level change, Murray-García has developed multi-day experiences, including the overnight Interprofessional Central Valley Road Trip down Highway 99, the 4-week Summer Institute on Race and Health for medical students, and the 3-day Anti-Racism and Cultural Humility (ARC) Training Program for clinical nurse leaders, School of Nursing and School of Medicine faculty, health system administrators, and health profession students.

 Dr. Murray-García received her BA in Human Biology with Honors and with Distinction from Stanford University, her MD from UCSF, and completed pediatric residency training at Oakland Children’s Hospital, followed by an MPH from UC Berkeley. She is widely published in the health sciences literature, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

 For over a decade, Dr. Murray-García worked with hundreds of students at Davis High School, addressing issues of race and racism within the school and the community. From the Community to the Classroom is an award-winning, youth directed documentary free on YouTube that details over a decade of activism, including the establishment of the ground-breaking course that fulfills the U.S. History graduation requirement. Begun in 2007, the course, “Race and Social Justice in U.S. History”, predates the State requirement for Ethnic Studies by 15 years. 

Her greatest achievements are her marriage in 1992 to her boyfriend of 32 years, Dr. Jorge García, and her children Canela, Gabriel, Ian, granddaughter Sarah, and grandson Moses.