Paul S. Mueller, MD, MPH, FACP

Clinical Biography

Paul S. Mueller, MD, MPH, FACP, is a board-certified internal medicine specialist in UT Health Austin’s Primary Care Clinic. He specializes in providing primary care for adults, which encompasses both primary care and consultative general internal medicine. Additionally, Dr. Mueller is a professor and serves as the Dr. Lowell Henry Lebermann Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine for the Dell Medical School Department of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Mueller earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed a residency in internal medicine on the Osler Medical Service at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he subsequently served as assistant chief of service.

Dr. Mueller previously served as a professor of medicine and biomedical ethics at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is a past chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a former regional vice president of Mayo Clinic Health System in Southwest Wisconsin, where he oversaw two hospitals and eight clinics. During his tenure, he achieved the highest levels of patient experience, quality, and safety, and led the construction of a new hospital. Over his 29 years at Mayo Clinic, he held numerous leadership roles, including chair of the Mayo Clinic Ethics Council. His research focuses on the ethical dilemmas associated with life-sustaining technologies, particularly implantable cardiovascular devices, and the imperatives for their use in clinical practice, as well as advance care planning. He has mentored many biomedical ethics scholars and was honored with the first endowed professorship in biomedical ethics at Mayo Clinic. Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a “Top Internist,” he has received awards for teaching excellence at all levels of the medical education continuum. He has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications, along with numerous book chapters, abstracts, letters, and columns. For more than 15 years, he has served as an associate editor for New England Journal of Medicine: Journal Watch General Medicine. He is a member, fellow, and master of the American College of Physicians, where he has contributed to its Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee and the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program. He is also a fellow of the Hastings Center, one of the world’s leading bioethics research institutes. Additionally, he is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the American Osler Society, and the Society of General Internal Medicine.