Specialization
Heart-Brain, Cardiogeriatrics, VCI, Cardiovascular aging
Focus of research
Majon Muller is an internist-geriatrician, an epidemiologist, and a Professor of Cardiovascular Aging at the department of Internal Medicine of the Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. She studied Health Sciences and Medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen and obtained her PhD in 2003. She was certified as an internist and geriatrician in 2009. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Getrude H. Sergievsky Center (Columbia University, NYC, USA) in 2006 and at the National Institute on Aging (NIH, Bethesda, USA) in 2011.
From 2016 - 2021 she headed the section Geriatrics of the department of Internal Medicine at the Amsterdam UMC (VUmc). In December 2018 she was appointed as Professor of Internal Medicine, with a chair on Cardiovascular Aging.
Her research interest is on the relation between heart and brain and on cardiovascular risk management in older populations. Her ambitions are 1) to investigate the pathophysiological relation between chronic cardiovascular disease and dementia; 2) to investigate optimal treatment targets with respect to cardiovascular risk management in older populations; and 3) to develop targeted care-programs for older patients with cardiovascular disease and/or VCI.
Recently, she initiated the Heart-Brain Center in collaboration with the department of cardiology of the Amsterdam UMC , which is an outpatient clinic for frail patients with chronic cardiac disease.