David Muller Explained

David Muller
Birth Date:18 April 1964
Birth Place:Tel Aviv, Israel
Citizenship:American
Field:Medical Education
Alma Mater:Johns Hopkins University, NYU
Known For:Co-founder, Global Health Center, Visiting Doctors Program

David Muller is a physician who in 1996 co-founded the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program (VDP), a program of Mount Sinai Medical Center's Departments of Medicine and Geriatrics.[1] He is Dean for Medical Education and the Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair in Medical Education[2] at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City[3] and Associate Professor of both Medicine and Medical Education.

As of 2020, Muller is senior advisor and co-founder (with Ramon Murphy and Philip J. Landrigan) of The Arnhold Global Health Institute, a division of The Mount Sinai Medical Center dedicated to finding evidence-based solutions to global health problems.[4] [5]

Biography

Muller was born in 1964 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 with a BA and earned his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine in 1991. His postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he was Chief Resident from 1994 to 1995.[6]

Career

Muller joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 1993. In 2004, he was named associate professor of medicine; in 2005 he was named dean and associate professor of medical education. In September, 2005, he was named Chairman of the Department of Medical Education. In that role he addressed prevention of suicide, racism and curtaining debt among medical students.[7] [8] [9] [10]

Visiting doctors program

The Visiting Doctors Program, co-founded by Muller, is one of the first and largest in-home care programs for the elderly.[11]

The VDP serves approximately 1,000 homebound elderly patients annually[12] and trains approximately 200 medical students, residents, and fellows annually in the provision of house calls and home care.[13] As of 2011, it was the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country,[14] [15] [16] and in 2022 its physicians made 6,000 home visits.[17]

Honors, awards and societies

Muller is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Association of American Medical Colleges, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for a National Health Program, and member of the American College of Physicians. He is a national board member of Compassion & Choices,[18] and board member of the Susan and Norman Ember Family Foundation and the Atran Family Foundation. He received the AAMC Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service in 2009.

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Mount Sinai (New York) Visiting Doctors Program: Meeting the Needs of the Urban Homebound Population . ResearchGate.
  2. Web site: 2015 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award. 2020-11-22. AAMC. en.
  3. Web site: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – Faculty profile . 2010-02-07 .
  4. Web site: About the Global Health Center . 2010-02-07.
  5. Web site: Global Health Center receives $1M grant . June 30, 2006 . Psych Central . 2010-02-07 . 2011-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927174319/http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-06/tmsh-msg063006.html . dead .
  6. Web site: National Health Policy Forum David Muller, MD. 2020-11-22. www.nhpf.org.
  7. Web site: 2019-04-11. Mount Sinai medical school to cap debt at $75K for students with financial need. 2020-11-22. Modern Healthcare. en.
  8. Lynch. Giselle. Holloway. Terrell. Muller. David. Palermo. Ann-Gel. May 2020. Suspending Student Selections to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society: How One School Is Navigating the Intersection of Equity and Wellness. Academic Medicine. en-US. 95. 5. 700–703. 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003087. 31764081. 208276890. 1040-2446. free.
  9. Web site: Medical school dean writes touching letter about physician burnout after 4th-year medical student commits suicide. 2020-11-22. www.beckershospitalreview.com.
  10. Web site: Paid Program. 25 May 2017 . 2020-11-22. en-US.
  11. Web site: Durana. Alieza. House Calls Can Lead to Dramatically Better Health Outcomes Among the Elderly. 2020-11-22. Pacific Standard. en.
  12. Web site: A Doctor in the House . Timothy Magaw . AARP . 2010-02-07 .
  13. Web site: 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100703181157/http://www.aamc.org/about/awards/2009/ocsa_mtsinai.htm . 2010-07-03 . 2010-02-07 . Association of American Medical Colleges.
  14. News: Randi Hutter Epstein . June 4, 2002 . House Calls: How Physicians Heal Themselves . 2010-02-07 . The New York Times.
  15. Web site: December 20, 2005 . Frontline Interviews David Muller, M.D. . 2010-02-07 . Frontline . PBS.org.
  16. Ornstein . Katherine . Hernandez . Cameron R. . DeCherrie . Linda V. . Soriano . Theresa A. . 2011 . The Mount Sinai (New York) Visiting Doctors Program: meeting the needs of the urban homebound population . Care Management Journals . 12 . 4 . 159–163 . 10.1891/1521-0987.12.4.159 . 1521-0987 . 23214235 . 45257840.
  17. Web site: Diaz . Naomi . 2022-10-07 . How Mount Sinai's Visiting Doctors Program is 'humanizing' the patient experience . 2024-03-05 . www.beckershospitalreview.com . en-gb.
  18. Web site: Compassion & Choices. 2010-02-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203000/http://www.compassionandchoices.org/learn/our_people. 2011-07-17. dead.

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