Paul S. Mueller, M.D., MPH

Paul S. Mueller, M.D., MPH, FACP, is a professor and the Dr. Lowell Henry Lebermann Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School.

Before joining Dell Med, Mueller was a professor of medicine and biomedical ethics at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. From 2009 to 2018, he was chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. From 2018 to 2024, he was regional vice president of Mayo Clinic Health System in Southwest Wisconsin, overseeing two hospitals and eight clinics. During his 29 years at Mayo Clinic, he served in many leadership roles, including chair of the Mayo Clinic Ethics Council.

Mueller received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed residency training 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 on the Osler Medical Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Mueller’s clinical practice encompasses primary care and consultative general internal medicine. U.S. News & World Report has recognized him as a “Top Internist,” and he has received awards for teaching excellence at every level of the medical education learning continuum.

Mueller’s research is focused on ethical dilemmas associated with life-sustaining technologies, especially implantable cardiovascular devices, the imperatives to use these technologies in clinical practice, and advance care planning. He has mentored many biomedical ethics scholars, and he was honored with the first endowed professorship in biomedical ethics at Mayo Clinic. He has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and hundreds of book chapters, abstracts, letters and columns.

Mueller is a member and fellow of the American College of Physicians, where he has served as a member of its Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee, and as a contributor and editor for its Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, one of the world’s leading bioethics research institutes. For more than 15 years, he has been an associate editor for New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch General Medicine. He also is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and the American Osler Society.