Andre A Muelenaer, Jr

ndre A Muelenaer, Jr, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCP, is board certified in Pediatric Pulmonology and has practiced in this specialty for over 30 years. He serves as section chief of pediatric pulmonology and allergy at the Carilion Children’s Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and holds adjunct positions in the Virginia Tech Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and the Virginia Tech Faculty of Health Sciences. He is Visiting Associate Professor, Paediatrics/Child Health, Busitema University, Mbale, Uganda. He currently teaches part-time in the Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. Dr. Muelenaer is a graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School, completed his pediatric residency at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, and received his fellowship training in pediatric pulmonology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dr. Muelenaer has been interested in infant apnea throughout his medical career, establishing the apnea program and pediatric sleep lab at Duke University, followed by a large infant apnea program at Carilion Clinic. He founded Triangle Apnea Consultants, Inc., in 2002, a “store and forward” telemedicine practice that received, analyzed, and interpreted data from thousands of event recording cardiorespiratory monitors utilized to monitor infants and children in the home setting. This service permitted primary care physicians to have an expert review of data while providing decision support knowledge to optimize care for their patients.

He has an extensive background working with engineers, starting as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. He co-founded the Pediatric Medical Device Institute (PMDI), along with Al Wicks, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech. PMDI is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to transform needs for pediatric devices to tools at the bedside, through the FDA’s Total Product Life Cycle model. He has mentored dozens of VT engineering and life sciences undergraduates, serving on graduate committees of engineering students, and research advisor for medical students and pediatric residents.

Dr. Muelenaer has served as chief medical officer for biomedical startup and early-stage companies. He is a board member for local, state, national, and international non-profit health-related organizations. He is a veteran of the US Army Medical Corps, with a total of 27 years of active and reserve service.