Dan Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978 and has more than 40 years of practice experience. He received his Diplomate in Chiropractic Orthopedics in 1986. Since 1982, Dan Murphy has served as part-time undergraduate faculty at Life Chiropractic College West, where he is currently teaching classes to seniors in the Management of Spinal Disorders and Spinal Pathology/Neurology. His academic rank at the college is that of Professor. 

Dan Murphy is on the post-graduate faculty of several chiropractic colleges. His post-graduate continuing education classes include “Whiplash and Spinal Trauma”, “Neuroimmunology”, “Pediatrics”, “Phospholipid Neurobiology”, “The Neurophysiology of Therapeutic Lasers”, and “Nutrition”. Dan Murphy has been the coordinator of a year-long certification program (through the International Chiropractic Association) in “Chiropractic Spinal Trauma”, a program that has graduated about 2,000 chiropractors. He has taught more than 1,750 post-graduate continuing education seminars, including classes in the United States, Canada, Australia, France, England, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, Spain, Panama, South Korea, and Peru. 

Dan Murphy is a contributing author to the books Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries, published by Aspen, 1996; Pediatric Chiropractic, published by Williams & Wilkins, 1998 and 2011; and Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries, 2nd edition, Jones and Bartlett, 2005. Dan Murphy wrote approximately 90 quarterly columns in the American Journal of Clinical Chiropractic.