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Adam C. Mueller, MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiation Oncology
  • Radiation Oncologist, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Dr. Mueller is a radiation oncologist with Mary Hillman Jennings Radiation Oncology Center at UPMC Shadyside who specializes in MRI-guided SBRT, reirradiation, and radiopharmaceutical administration. His clinical interests include genitourinary and gastrointestinal malignancies, oligometastatic cancer, and cancers of the prostate, bladder, pancreas, rectum, and esophagus. His research interests involve therapeutic resistance in prancreatic cancer, tumor microenvironment and metabolism, and cell intrinsic and extrinsic radioresistance.

    Education & Training

  • BS: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2002
  • MS: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2003
  • PhD: University of Virginia, 2013
  • MD: University of Virginia, 2015
  • Residency: University of Colorado, 2020
Awards
Thomas Jefferson University Resident Education Award, 2022
Arnold P. Gold Humanism Society, 2019
Paul Sandoval Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Scholarship, 2018
UVA Department of Biochemistry Joyce Hamlin Award, 2014
DOD CDMRP Fellowship, 2008
Representative Publications
Research Grants

ASTRO/American Cancer Society Clinician Scientist Development Grant 2023–2027
Past: RSNA Research Scholar Grant 2021–2023
RSNA Resident Research Grant 2019–2020
Cancer League of Colorado Research Grant 2019