Hopkins Doctor to Present Harmel Lecture
Friday, January 26, 2001
Dr. Edward D. Miller, who in his position as CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, heads the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and its health system, will deliver the 14th annual Merel H. Harmel Lectureship.
The lecture, entitled "Can Academic Anesthesia Departments Survive?" begins at 7:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7, in 2002 Duke Hospital. The lecture is traditionally given during joint grand rounds sponsored by the Department of Surgery and the Department of Anesthesiology.
The lecture series was established by the Department of Anesthesiology to honor Harmel, who served as professor and chairman of the department from 1971 to 1982, and as chairman emeritus from 1983 to 1988.
In January of 1997, after a year-long national search, Miller was recruited to become the first chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, a new organization that formally integrated the operations of the School of Medicine with the Johns Hopkins Health System and Hospital.
An anesthesiologist by training, Miller joined the Hopkins faculty in 1994 as chairman of anesthesiology after eight years as professor and chairman of anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, N.Y. He served on the anesthesiology faculty of the University of Virginia for 11 years before that.
Miller is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and is the author of more than 150 scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters. His research has focused on the cardiovascular effects of anesthetic drugs and vascular smooth muscle relaxation.