Edward D. Miller Jr. was the Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D. Dean of the

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and the

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of Johns Hopkins Medicine from 1997 to 2012. He is an

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who has published over 150 scientific papers and other works on cardiovascular effects of anesthetic drugs and

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relaxation.

Biography

Miller was born in 1943 in

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, N.Y., received an A.B. from Ohio Wesleyan University and an M.D. from the

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School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was then an intern at University Hospital in Boston, chief resident in anesthesiology at

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two f ...

in Boston, and research fellow in physiology at

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. He became a member of the faculty at the

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, then professor and chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of

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He became professor and director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1994, and was appointed interim dean in 1996. He was succeeded in 2012 by Dr. Paul B. Rothman.

Honors

* President of the Association of University Anesthesiologists * Editor of '' Anesthesia and Analgesia'' * Editor of ''Critical Care Medicine'' * Board of the International Anesthesia Research Society * Chairman of the FDA's Advisory Committee on Anesthesia and Life Support Drugs * Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences * Fellow of the

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* Fellow of the

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*Ohio Wesleyan University Distinguished Achievement Citation

References

External links

The Legacy of Dr. Edward D. Miller
at YouTube
PubMed search for Edward D. Miller, Jr.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Edward D 1943 births Living people Ohio Wesleyan University alumni University of Rochester alumni Harvard Medical School people University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty Columbia University faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians American anesthesiologists Members of the National Academy of Medicine Fellows of the Royal College of Anaesthetists