Mark Muir, M.D.

Dr. Muir graduated with Honors in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He earned a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 2006 and was elected to AOA. While in medical school, he completed a year-long Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. He then completed a residency in general surgery at the UT Health San Antonio in 2013, during which time he spent two years as an NIH T32 research fellow and received a Master’s degree in Clinical Investigation (2010). His research fellowship resulted in a grant from the National Trauma Institute for a multicenter study of Mycoplasma pneumonia in the ICU. He completed a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at UT Health San Antonio in 2014 and subsequently joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. He is board certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Areas of interest include surgical nutrition, data utilization in the ICU, and the role of atypical bacterial pathogens in ventilator-associated pneumonia and ARDS.