Dr. Murray Urowitz is a Professor Emeritus with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He was the Director of the Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases Toronto Western Hospital from 1995-2022 and Director of the Toronto Lupus Program from 1970-2022.

Dr. Urowitz established the University of Toronto Lupus Clinic and Lupus Databank Research Program 1970. This extensive longitudinal database is one of the largest such databanks in the world with over 2150 patients and has allowed for numerous findings which have changed the way lupus is diagnosed and managed. He was Senior Scientist with the Krembil Research Institute and Schroeder Arthritis Institute. Dr. Urowitz has published over 469 peer-reviewed papers and 46 book chapters. He has supervised the training of over 130 fellows in rheumatology especially in SLE.

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. He was a founding member of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) group and Director of the SLICC Registry for Atherosclerosis. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for commitment to the field of lupus by Lupus Ontario in March 2016.