Formerly the vice dean for Internal Programs (2006-07) and associate dean for research and clinical scholarship (1998-2006) in the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Miller will oversee UD's School of Nursing and will work with faculty members who are seeking funding for research from local, state and national funding sources. He also will work on engaging graduate students in the clinical research process.
“A major component that got me interested in the University of Delaware is the potential that exists here for developing both the doctoral program and for developing a program of research for many of the faculty here at the School of Nursing,” Miller said.
Betty Paulanka, dean of the College of Health Sciences, said that Miller, the first head of UD's nursing program to be hired from the outside since the early 1990s, was chosen from a highly qualified pool of applicants in part because of his successful leadership of the nursing program at the University of New Mexico.
“Miller really put the University of New Mexico's nursing program on the map in terms of national rankings,” Paulanka said. “He was very successful in expanding the research program there, and we feel that is the direction in which our program at UD would like to go, so he will be a tremendous asset for the University.”
Before his tenure as vice dean of Internal Programs in the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Miller held professorial positions at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He also served as director of clinical nursing research at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., as associated dean for research and clinical scholarship in the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and the School of Nursing, Department of Physiological Nursing, at the University of California, San Francisco. Miller also worked as a clinical nurse in medical centers and hospitals in California, Arizona and Michigan.
He holds a bachelor's degree in English from St. Louis University, an associate degree in nursing from Lansing Community College, a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Michigan, a master of science degree in medical and surgical nursing from the University of Arizona, and a doctoral degree in clinical nursing research from the University of Arizona. Miller also completed a post-master's certification program as a family nurse practioner at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Article by Becca Hutchinson
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