COLUMBIA, MO, August 03, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Douglas C. Miller, MD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Backed by a plethora of professional experience in pathology, especially neuropathology, Dr. Miller has made major contributions in diagnosis, scientific inquiry, and education in his field. He graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, MA, with a Bachelor of Arts in biology (magna cum laude, with highest honors) in 1974. In 1978, he earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He subsequently obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, in 1980. Dr. Miller concluded his training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, completing his anatomic pathology residency in 1982 and his neuropathology residency in 1984.
At the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Dr. Miller is currently a Clinical Professor of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences since 2007. He was appointed the interim chair of the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in September 2018 and was made Chair as of August 1, 2020. He has served as Program Director of the pathology residency since 2009. He serves on multiple School of Medicine committees and as an attending pathologist of University of Missouri Health Care, including University Hospital, Women's and Children's Hospital, and the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.
Previously, Dr. Miller served on the faculty of New York University Langone Medical Center and School of Medicine, as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Neurosurgery (1987-1994), Associate Professor of Neuropatology and Neurosurgery (with tenure, 1994-2002), and as Professor of Neuropathology and Neurosurgery (2002-2007). He was the Director of the Division of Neuropathology from 1994 to 2007, Director of the Pathology Residency from 1997-2004, and Director of the Neuropathology residency/fellowship from 1994 to 2006. Many of his former trainees are in senior faculty positions and department chair positions across the US. His NYU responsibilities included attending neuropathology positions at Tisch Hospital, Bellevue Hospital, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases, and consultant positions at other New York City hospitals including the Manhattan VA Hospital and Lenox Hill Hospital.
Since his childhood, Dr. Miller was always interested in science, particularly in biology. His parents had careers in biological science, as his father was a physician and he had met his mother when they were both graduate students in genetics at Columbia University. His college honors thesis dealt with photoreceptor ultrastructure and physiology, and his PhD thesis was on multiple aspects of synaptic transmission. As a resident he became dedicated to improving diagnosis and understanding of tumors of the central nervous system, and studied animal models as well as human CNS tumor specimens, activities he has continued throughout his career. His interest in neurofibromatosis stems from work done in residency, and for many years he has served on grant evaluation panels for the Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP), chairing the NFRP Programmatic Panel from 2014-2016, and serving as Chair of the External Advisory Board of the NFRP's Clinical Trials Consortium since 2015.
Dr. Miller is a member of the American Association of Neuropathologists, is a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and of the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and is a member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the International Society of Neuropathology, the Society for Neuro-Oncology, and the Association of Pathology Chairs. He is a charter member of the Neuroplex (the New York State Society of Neuropathologists).
Dr. Miller has authored over 180 medical-scientific papers and book chapters, and has been a co-author of two editions of the Atlas of Clinical Neurology. He was the sole author of a major text, Modern Surgical Neuropathology (Cambridge University Press), which was awarded First Prize for Neurology Books in 2010 by the British Medical Association Book Awards. Dr Miller's teaching of residents was recognized by the Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Missouri School of Medicine's Department of Neurology in 2012-13, by the Paul C.J. Sun MD Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching from the University of Missouri School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in 2011, and by the Attending of the Year Award by the NYU Pathology Residency for 2001-02. He was given the Meritorious Service Award from the Neuroplex in 2007. Dr. Miller was chosen for the Conant-Harrington Prize for Research in Biology at Williams College in 1974 and the Albert I. Cohen Memorial Prize for Research from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1978.
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