Biography

Dr. Mueller completed work for her Bachelor's of Science degree in biology and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1992. She is a 1998 graduate of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her Family Medicine residency at South Pointe Hospital/Cleveland Clinic Health System in Cleveland, Ohio in 2001. She then went on to do her sub-specialty training in Medical Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, completing that program in 2003. She is board-eligible in Medical Genetics. Dr. Mueller then joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh as Assistant Clinical Professor with appointments in the Department of Family Medicine and the Center for Medical Genetics, where she provided a broad range of clinical services to a patient population with diverse genetic diseases. She joined the Clinical Genetics Branch in July 2004, as a post-doctoral Cancer Genetics Research Fellow.

Research Interests

Her major research interests are familial/hereditary cancers, cancer screening and chemoprevention in genetically at-risk populations.

Selected Publications

• Laverriere, A., MacNeill, C., Mueller, C., Poelmann, R., Burch, J., and Evans, T. "GATA-4/5/6 constitute a subfamily of transcription factors expressed in developing heart and gut." The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 269: 23177-23184, 1994.
• Vats, A., Ishwad, C., Vats, K., Moritz, M., Ellis, D., Mueller, C., Surti, U., Pariszhskaya, M., Meza, M., Burke, L., Schneck, F., Saxena, M., Ferrell, R. "Steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome and congenital anomalies of kidneys: evidence of locus on chromosome 13q." Kidney International, 64:17-24, 2003.
• Mueller, C., Patel, S., Irons, M., Antshel, K., Salen, G., Tint, G.S., Bay, C. "Normal cognition and behavior in a Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome patient who presented with Hirschsprung's disease." Am J Med Genet, 123A(1): 100-6, 2003.

Collaborators

DCEG Collaborators

• Mark H. Greene, M.D., Blanche P. Alter, M.D., M.P.H., Sheila Prindiville, M.D., M.P.H., Ruthann Giusti, M.D., M.S.P.H., Mary Lou McMaster, M.D., Jennifer Loud, M.S.N., C.R.N.P., June Peters, M.S., Nancy Weissman, M.S.S.W.