Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

S T E V E N T. ( S T E V E ) M I L L E R

Address: 1137 Arboretum Drive, Wilmington, NC 28405 Email: stevemilller1137@gmail.com ● Phone: H: 910-679-4387 ● C: 901-496-7990

Alma mater: University of Kentucky, B.A., 1966

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internal Medicine Residency: Osler Medical Service, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1970-1973 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins University, 1973-1974 Board Certification: ABIM, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Alpha Omega Alpha, Johns Hopkins Distinguished Service Award, Regional Medical Center at Memphis, 1989 Proclamation of Extraordinary Contributions for Teaching, Research and Community Missions, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, 1992. Health Care Hero, Memphis Business Journal, 2003 Leader and Mentor in General Internal Medicine Award (first awardee), Society of General Internal Medicine, Southern Region, 2009 Outstanding Service Award of the Council, Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Physicians, 2009 Laureate Award, American College of Physicians, Tennessee Chapter, 2009 Service Award, Memphis Medical Society, 2010 Robert S Pearce Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2011 Master, American College of Physicians, 2011 Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare Foundation (Memphis) Living Award for Physician Inspiration, 2012 Current Employment: Retired as Robert S. Pearce Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee

Tennessee College of Medicine as director of the Primary Care Clinic at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. My first grants were in chronic disease research and to establish primary care as an educational priority. This resulted in my appointment as the first director of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine. In that position, I established a patient care, education, and research program. I recruited a divisional faculty that eventually produced four chairs of medicine at U.S. medical schools. My later educational and administrative journeys included program director of an internal medicine residency program; associate dean in the College of Medicine; senior vice-president for education and research of Methodist Healthcare as a major teaching site for the University of Tennessee, and appointments as professor of medicine, preventive medicine, and nursing. My research work in chronic disease produced over 90 publications and numerous abstracts and presentations. During my academic career, I maintained an active primary care and geriatrics clinical practice. My accessory and volunteer activities included Governor - Tennessee American College of Physicians; Vice President - Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society; Board of Directors - Medical Research and Education Institute (Memphis); Board of Directors -University Physicians Foundation; Working Group on the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly-National Institutes of Health; Board of Directors - Shelby County Hospital Corporation; Consultant - Ambulatory Health Care to Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; Primary Health Care Advisory Board - Tennessee Department of Health; Data Monitoring Board for Evaluation of GEMUnits and Geriatric Follow-up-Department of Veterans Affairs; Board of Directors - Church Health Center (Memphis); Board of Directors - Memphis Urban League; Associate Chief Medical Officer - UT Medical Group; interim Chief Medical Officer - Methodist Germantown Hospital (Memphis), and interim administrator - Methodist North Hospital. After my academic retirement from the University of Tennessee and Methodist Healthcare, Wendy and I moved to Wilmington, NC to be closer to family and enjoy the coast in retirement. I finished my clinical work as a primary care – geriatrician at the Wilmington VA Health Care Center.

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Wendy Miller, married 1968

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Amy and Justin Grandchildren: Kellum and Mae Humphrey

Narrative: After completing residency training in internal medicine and the RWJ Clinical Scholars Program at Hopkins, I moved to Memphis in 1974 as a faculty member in the University of

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