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Surgeons Appoint Professor To Board

By PAT GRANEY

William H. Muller, Jr. professor and
chairman of the Department of Surgery
at the School of Medicine, was recently
selected to serve on the Board of Regents
for the American College of Surgeons.

This distinction places Dr. Muller on
the American College's 19-member
policy-making body, which serves more
than 32,000 surgeons in about 100
countries.

As a specialist in heat surgery, Dr.
Muller has assisted in the publication of
more than 125 medical papers and
articles. He was also the first surgeon to
successfully correct transposition of the
pulmonary veins and to develop and
apply a clinical operation for banding the
pulmonary artery.

Dr. Muller has designed one of the first
devices for replacing an entire heart valve,
and was among the first to utilize a
clinical approach for maintaining blood
flow through the coronary arteries during
open heart surgery.

After four years of association with
the University of California at the Los
Angeles School of Medicine, Dr. Muller
came to the University in 1954 as the
Stephen H. Watts Professor of Surgery,
and chairman of the surgery department.

At UCLA, he was chief of the
cardiovascular surgery section at the Los
Angeles County Harbor General Hospital
in Torrence, Calif. He also served as
attending specialist in thoracic surgery at
the Wadsworth Veterans Administration
Hospital in Los Angeles, and as
consultant in surgery at two Santa
Monica, Calif. hospitals.

Born in South Carolina, Dr. Muller
received his B.S. degree at the Citadel and
completed medical school at Duke
University. He continued his career with
an internship and five years of residency