Aaron E. Miller is an American neurologist, the first Chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis section of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and recognized as a multiple sclerosis clinician.
Miller is both a professor of neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and medical director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis, both part of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Additionally, he continues to serve as co-director of the Multiple Sclerosis Care Center at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Biography
Miller graduated from Brandeis University with honors in 1964 and received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1968. He completed his residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, later acquiring additional postdoctoral training in neurovirology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
He was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy from 1971 to 1973.
From 1981 until 2004, Miller headed the Division of Neurology at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center; he continues to serve as co-director of its Multiple Sclerosis Care Center.
In 2004, he assumed his current title of medical director of the CGD Center for MS at Mount Sinai Hospital, of which Fred D. Lublin, MD is Director. Miller currently serves as Editor of Continuum, AAN's bimonthly continuing education publication, and he is a reviewer for many prominent journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology and the Archives of Neurology as well as co-author of one of the most-frequently cited articles in Brain: A Journal of Neurology.
In 2001, Miller became the Chief Medical Officer and Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS); he served as chairman of the Clinical Advisory Committee of the New York chapter of the NMSS from 1991 to 2004 and has received grant/research support from Acorda Therapeutics, Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Novartis, and Teva Neuroscience.
He is listed in New York magazine's "Best Doctors" issue of 2008.
Awards
1998 – Elected Member, American Neurological Association
1985 – current, Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
1979 – 1981, Teacher-Investigator Award, NINCDS
1968 – Alpha Omega Alpha, New York University School of Medicine
1964 – Phi Beta Kappa, Mu chapter of Massachusetts, Brandeis University
Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
Memberships and affiliations
Chairman, Clinical Advisory Committee, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Former co-chairman, American Academy of Neurology Education Committee
Scientific Advisory Committee member, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
International Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials in Multiple Sclerosis
Publications
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