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. He is Dean for Medical Education and the Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair in Medical Education at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City 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.

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.

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.

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

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, 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.

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