Marta Muller, M.D. initially worked as a consulting treating psychiatrist with the dually diagnosed population of children at ODTC. That was almost 30 years ago. She provided psychiatric assessment and psychotropic medication treatment along with other supportive activities associated with training and overall supervision of psychological and psychiatric services. Later, as Director of Social Systems, she became more involved with the functions of all Divisions within the Oconomowoc Residential Programs' family of Companies. As a result, she came to know more intimately the team that has guided the development of PWHO to its present quality status of competence. She is now a full time member of that team.
Dr. Muller has worked with children with PWS throughout her career with ODTC, and continued to work with these individuals as PWHO evolved and grew to become its own independent Division.
Over time, Dr. Muller became increasingly more interested in searching the “person behind the mask,” first among the cognitively challenged children of ODTC, and especially among children and adults with Tourette Syndrome, which is a specialty of hers. More recently, this interest has included the people living at PWHO. Her other passion has been to attempt to assist their families with the traumatizing, "choking chains" of these chronic disorders.
Dr. Muller’s education started with learning how to survive during her family’s flight to freedom from war in Poland. Such involuntary travels took a detour of 6 years of primary schooling in Brazil, and finally brought her to the U.S., where eventually she received a B.A. degree in Zoology at Barnard College of Columbia University. Dr. Muller received her medical education at Marquette University School of Medicine. Her residency in Child and Adult Psychiatry was complemented with extensive training in Neuro-linguistic-programming (NLP), Ericksonian hypnosis, and Metaphor Therapy, which she offers for professional sports and arts performance enhancement in her private practice. She applies this to her hobby of mime, and will jump at any invitation to perform at a party or gathering! However, most of all, she wishes “to express her joy, and enthusiasm, and a sense of honor and privilege” to now be a full time member of an incredibly enlightened and visionary team that wants to lighten the burden of the courageous people with Prader-Willi Syndrome and their devoted families.