Dr James G. Miller

Professor

Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

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Background

James G. Miller joined the Washington University faculty in 1970 as Assistant Professor of Physics. He is currently the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics and Director of the Laboratory for Ultrasonics. Miller also holds the rank of Professor of Medicine in the Washington University School of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine in 1986, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in1990, a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1998, and a Fellow of the American Institute Of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2000. In 2004, Miller was awarded the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America. He has been named as the recipient of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society's 2006 Achievement Award.

For more than two decades, Miller has shared the results of his research with Washington University undergraduates in a course entitled Physics of the Heart. For this course, Miller received the 1989 Faculty Teaching Award from the Council of Students of Arts & Sciences. In 2004, he received the Emerson Teaching Award. Miller has also been a mentor to 25 physics graduate students who have completed the Ph.D. under his direction.