Dr Muller is a Preeminent General, Trauma and Burn Surgeon with more than three decades of specialist surgical practice, clinical leadership, teaching and research. His clinical experience spans the care of critically injured patients, including burn resuscitation, operative burn management, wound healing, reconstructive pathways, trauma surgery and the longer-term functional consequences of serious injury. He has substantial expertise in multidisciplinary trauma systems, mass-casualty preparedness and injury prevention.

Alongside his clinical practice, Dr Muller has made a substantial contribution to trauma and burns through research, education and professional leadership. His academic work has addressed burn wound healing, resuscitation, sepsis, rehabilitation, trauma outcomes and burn prevention, and he has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. He has taught trauma and burns management nationally and internationally and has been closely involved in the development and delivery of established surgical trauma and burns education programs. He sits on five editorial boards of Medical Journals and has been a visiting Professor to Los Angeles County Hospital and Brooke Army Medical Centre, San Antonio. Dr Muller was an original co-author of the Emergency Management of Severe Burns, which is now taught in 15 countries; and the author of the Burns chapter in the worldwide Definitive Surgery of Trauma Course.

Qualifications and Fellowships

• 2001: Master of Medical Science (Surgery), The University of Queensland
• 1990: Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS), General
• 1978: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), The University of Queensland

Current Positions

• 2023 – Current: Preeminent Staff Surgeon, Trauma, Burn and General Surgery, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• Current: Professor, The University of Queensland
• 2020 – Current: Education Co-Lead, Jamieson Trauma Institute
• Current: Program Director and Licensee, Stop the Bleed
• Current: Visiting Medical Officer, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside

Areas of Expertise

• Trauma surgery and management of major injury
• Burn surgery, burn wound management and burn rehabilitation
• General surgery and complex surgical care
• Wound healing, skin grafting and scar management
• Chest wall injury, rib fractures and trauma systems
• Trauma and burn education, prevention and research

Previous Appointments

• 2014 – 2022: Senior Visiting Medical Officer, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• 2019 – 2020: Senior Visiting Medical Officer (Trauma), Gold Coast University Hospital
• 2007 – 2008: Founding Director, Trauma Service, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• 2006 – 2014: Senior Staff General & Burn Surgeon, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• 2004 – 2005: Staff General & Burn Surgeon, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• 2001 – 2003: Co-Director, South Auckland Burn Service, Auckland, New Zealand
• 1999 – 2001: Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Qld
• 1996 – 2000: Clinical Consultant, Queensland Skin Bank & Skin Culture Laboratory
• 1994 – 2000: Staff General and Burn Surgeon, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• 1992 – 1993: Clinical Fellow in Burn Surgery, and Research Fellow, Shriners Burn Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA