Professional Bio
Dr. Miller received his undergraduate and graduate training at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School with Professors William Berndt, Gilbert Mudge, Virgil Ferm and William Layton in Pharmacology/Toxicology /Teratology. He also did post graduate training at Jefferson Medical College with Professors Robert Brent and Tom Koszalka in Developmental Biology /Teratology. In 1974, he joined the Departments of Obstetrics/Gynecology at the University of Rochester under Professor Henry A. Thiede and of Pharmacology/Toxicology under Professor Louis Lasagna as an Assistant Professor. He is currently Professor of Obs/Gyn, of Environmental Medicine and of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine.
During this time, he has been involved with the leadership of the NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center, as well as Associate Chair for Research in Obs/Gyn. In 1987, Dr. Miller began the Perinatal Environmental and Drug Consultation Service (PEDECS) (New York Teratogen Information Service) in Obs/Gyn and is its Director. This service provides expertise concerning exposures during pregnancy or before pregnancy to environmental, occupational and therapeutic exposures to the women and/or family.
He is also co-Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health at the University of Rochester.
Dr. Miller is Past President of the Teratology Society and has been active with National and International Concerns involving Vitamins and Herbal Products as well as environmental exposures.
He is actively involved with OTIS, the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists, with their Committees on Occupational Exposures and on Research. He is currently Chair of the International Committee on Research for OTIS and ENTIS.
Dr. Miller has recently co-edited a volume on these subjects entitled, "Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation - Treatment Options and Risk Assessment" besides his other 10 volumes.
Also he was Scientific Director of the NIH sponsored Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholars Program for training Obstetrician/Gynecologists as Clinical Scientists from 1999 - 2010.
Dr. Miller is a member of the Scientific Board of TERIS as well as Dysmorphologist and Scientific Board Member for the US Ribavirin Pregnancy Registry.
He has been involved with a number of research programs with the National Toxicology Program (Scientific Board), the FDA, NIH, Merck, Roche, Centecor, Eastman Kodak, Johnson and Johnson and other partners.
He has trained more than 25 fellows and graduate students, who are providing leadership in Academia, Government and Industry throughout the world.
His funding does and has come from NICHHD, NIAID, NIAAA, NCI, NIEHS, FDA, NCS, US Israel Binational Fdn, Goode Fdn and industry partners.
He was also the recipient of the Bock Prize for Developmental Biology and Child Health in 2011.
For 2011, he has organized, spoken or will be
• Faculty, NIH CICHR Summer Institute on Obstetrical Pharmacology (Montreal, Canada)
• International ENTIS and OTIS Meeting (Jerusalem, Israel) Organized and Speaking in the Symposium on the Placenta in Clinical Teratology;
• Symposium Society of Toxicology (Washington, DC) on Toxicological Considerations of Pharmacotherapy During Pregnancy
• Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology for Industrial and Regulatory Scientists Course sponsored by the Teratology Society (Virginia): Placental and Maternal Influences on Development;
• Bock Prize Lecturer - Impact of Prenatal, Neonatal and Early Childhood Nutritional and Environmental Factors on a Child's Growth and Development – a Pediatric Problem. A.I DuPont Children's Hospital, Jefferson Medical College (Wilmington, Del)
• Toxicology Distinguished Lecturer, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor (MI)
Patient Care Bio
Dr. Miller is Director of the Perinatal Environmental and Drug Consultation Service (New York Teratogen Information Service) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. This service was begun in 1987 and provides expertise concerning exposures during pregnancy or before pregnancy to environmental, occupational and therapeutic exposures to the women and/or family. Dr. Miller has recently co-edited a volume on these subjects entitled, "Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation - Treatment Options and Risk Assessment". Dr. Miller provides these services to health care providers and families by telephone or by appointment. Please call 585 275 3638.
Dr. Miller is Co-Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Children's Environmental Health for the Rochester Region.
He is also Scientific Director of the NIH sponsored Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholars Program for training Obstetrician/Gynecologists as Clinical Scientists.
Dr. Miller is a member of the Scientific Board of TERIS as well as Dysmorphologist and Scientific Board Member for the US Ribavirin Pregnancy Registry.
| Bock Prize for Developmental Biology and Child Health | Nemours Foundation | Wilmington, Delaware |
2011 |
| Graduate Student Society Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching | University of Rochester |
2006 |
| 200th Anniversary - Alumnus Recognition Portrait/Profile | Dartmouth Medical School |
1997 |
| President, Teratology Society |
1991 - 1992 |
| Fulbright Distinguished Professor Fellowship | NIH |
1988 |
| Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, US National Toxicology Program |
1988 - 1992 |
| Scientific Review Board, NIH TERIS |
1988 - Present |
| NIH/Fogarty Senior International Fellowship |
1983 - 1983 |
| Editor, Trophoblast Research |
1983 - 2001 |
| Fellow, Academy of Toxicology |
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| Fellow, American College of Forensic Medicine |
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| Who's Who in the World, USA |
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| Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, USA |
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| Who's Who in American Education, USA |
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| Who's Who in the East, USA |
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| Who's Who in the East, USA |
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| Who's Who in Men and Women of Science, USA |
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