Rebecca Mueller - Faculty Biosketch

Rebecca Mueller, PhD, LCGC

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Director of Research, Instructor, Masters Genetic Counseling Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Department: Medicine

Contact information

Master of Science in Genetic Counseling Program  
Perelman School of Medicine
Maloney Building, Ninth Floor, MO9026
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215 260 5523

Email:
rebecca.mueller@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Education:
BA (American Studies, focus on medicine))
Barnard College, 2004.
M.S. (Genetic Counseling Program)
Arcadia University, 2011.
Ph.D (History and Sociology of Science)
University of Pennsylvania, 2021.

Post-Graduate Training
T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, 2021-2024.

Certifications
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative: Human Subjects Research, 2009.
American Board of Genetic Counseling, Inc., 2011.

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Selected Publications

Callahan, KP; Mueller R; Skraban, C; Crew,K; Munson, D; Spinner, N;Clapp, J. Feudtner, C.: Parents’ Perceptions of Genetic Testing as Helpful or Harmful in the NICU. Genetics in Medicine. 27(6): 101393, Feb 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print.

Callahan KP, Mueller R, Joffe S, Skraban C, Spinner N, Crew K, Wild KT, Clapp JT, Feudtner C. : How Neonatologists Use Genetic Information. J Pediatr. 114508, Feb 2025 Notes: Epub ahead of print.

Madden, K., Mueller, R.**, Brown C., Valverde K. D.; Langfelder-Schwind, E. **co-first author : Facilitators and Barriers to Increasing Equity in Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening Algorithms. Pediatric Pulmonology 60(1): e27449, Jan 2025.

Davidson, H. R., Jamal, L., Mueller, R., Similuk, M., & Owczarzak, J. : Renegotiation, uncertainty, imagination: Assemblage perspectives on reproductive and family planning with an Inborn Error of immunity. Social Science & Medicine 360: 117303, Nov 2024.

Callahan, K. P., Mueller, R., Crew, K., Brothers, K., Munson, D., Joffe, S., & Feudtner, C.: Frequency and Reasons that Parents Decline Genetic Testing for Critically Ill Neonates. Genetics in Medicine Open 15(2): 101896. Oct 2024.

Sufian, Sandy, Rebecca Mueller, Elinor Langfelder-Schwind, Katherine Caldwell, Georgia Brown, Molly Ruben, Sheila Mody, Patricia Walker, and Emily Godfrey: When chronicity meets cyclicity: The cultivation of embodied knowledge and selfhood by cis-gender women with cystic fibrosis. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health 5: 100412, Jun 2024.

Muraresku, C. C., McCormick, E. M., Rockart, L., Blaine Crowley, T., Asher, S., Back, A., ... Mueller, R… McDonald-McGinn, D. M. : Expanding Genetic Counselor Roles: A Model for Global Research Development. Genes 15(7): 887, 2024.

Mueller, R., Knight, A., Sufian, S., & Garland-Thomson, R. : A Disability Critique of the Comparative View. The American Journal of Bioethics. American Journal of Bioethics 24(8), 40-42 2024.

Mueller, R.: Prognostic imagination: Genetic counseling amidst therapeutic innovation and evolving futures. Genet Couns. 32(4): 762-767, Aug 2023.

Mueller R, Lee BM, Callahan KP. : Managing Prognosis in Precision Medicine: Utility, Imagination, and Communication. Children (Basel). 10(4): 664, 2023.