Neil R Miller MD

The Academy is pleased to recognize Neil R Miller MD as a Guest of Honor for his contributions to ophthalmology as an outstanding clinical professor of neuro-ophthalmology.

Neil R Miller MD was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. After graduation from Harvard College, he received his medical degree in 1971 from Johns Hopkins and interned in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He did his residency in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute and was Chief Resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a Fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at University of California with William F Hoyt MD. Subsequently, he was appointed an assistant professor, associate professor, and then full professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Miller is currently professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, where he is also the Frank B Walsh Professor of Neuro-Ophthalmology and head of the Neuro-Ophthalmology and Orbital Division of the Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Miller has been an Academy member since 1977 and has served on and chaired several committees, both national and international.

Dr. Miller has spoken at numerous meetings around the world and has given 37 named lectures in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East, including the Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture at the 2001 meeting of the AAO, the William F Hoyt Lecture at the 2005 AAO meeting, and the Doyne Memorial Lecture at the 2006 meeting of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. Dr. Miller has trained numerous neuro-ophthalmologists throughout the world and is cited annually by various magazines and periodicals as one of the top physicians in the United States.

Dr. Miller has received several special awards and honors, including an Academy Honor Award, Senior Honor Award, and the Secretariat Award, as well as the Distinguished Service Award of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.

Supporting Dr. Miller in all of these endeavors have been Carol, his wife of 34 years, and his daughter, Elizabeth Anne.

The Academy expresses its admiration and gratitude for Dr. Neil Miller’s many contributions to Ophthalmology and warmly welcomes him as a Guest of Honor in 2007.