Frederick O. Mueller, PhD.

Dr. Frederick O. Mueller
Chairman, Department of Exercise and Sport Science
204 Fetzer Gym, CB# 8700
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8700

 email: mueller@email.unc.edu

 

Professional Summary

Dr. Mueller is the Chairman of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Professor specializing in Sports Administration.

Frederick O. Mueller is starting his 32nd year with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is originally from Woodbridge, New Jersey and first enrolled as a freshman at UNC-CH in the fall of 1956. He completed his AB in Education in 1961, an M.Ed. in Education in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Education in 1970. All three degrees are from UNC-CH. During the past 31 years he was an assistant football coach, head lacrosse coach, appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Education in 1970, served as Director of the freshman activities program, directed the undergraduate physical education majors program, and is currently Chairman of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.

Fred Mueller's research interest is in the area of the epidemiology of athletic injuries. He is currently the Director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research which is located at UNC-CH. The center collects catastrophic (fatalities and permanent disability) injury data for high school and college athletes on a national level. The center has been in existence since 1982 and is funded annually by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The most recent completed report is the 14th Annual Report - 1982 - 1996.

In addition to the National Center, Dr. Mueller is currently working on a four year $903,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to collect athletic injuries from 100 North Carolina high schools for both males and females in 12 different sports. The final year of data collection will be in 1998-1999 with the final report due in January of 2000. Another project that is currently in progress is a national study of youth baseball injuries. The aim of the research is to compare the injury data to particular pieces of equipment being used across the United States. This project is being funded by Major League Baseball through USA Baseball.