Clinical Instructor in Medicine and Medical College alumnus Dr. Carlyle Harvey Miller has been named the new associate dean of student affairs and equal opportunity programs at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Miller succeeds Dr. Bruce Ballard, who recently retired after 25 years of service to the Weill Cornell community. Dr. Miller assumed his new role on July 1.
The appointment of Dr. Miller is a unique homecoming: his earliest link with Weill Cornell came in 1970, when, after graduating from Columbia University with a degree in biology, he was enrolled in the Traveler's Summer Research Fellowship Program, a program organized by the Office of Student Affairs and Equal Opportunity Programs for minority students to take part in summer research at the Medical College. "Participation in this program was, perhaps, the most significant event in my medical education," said Dr. Miller. "It was during this period that I recognized Cornell's commitment to excellence in three key areas of medicine: clinical care, medical research and student education."
After graduating from the Medical College in 1975, Dr. Miller completed his residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell (then known as The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center), and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Weill Cornell's tri-institutional affiliate Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Miller has since served a number of academic and clinical appointments, most recently as chairman of the biomedical sciences and academic dean at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, and is currently assistant attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
In addition to his numerous honors—among them five citations to the Medical College's Senior List, three Outstanding Teaching Awards from the Weill Cornell chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, and numerous other awards for humanitarianism and education—Dr. Miller is also committed to volunteerism and community outreach. He has served as a mentor to high-school-age and college students, and has provided guidance to minority youth with an interest in biomedical research and patient care.
"Dr. Miller has been a devoted alumnus and friend to the Weill Cornell Medical College community," said Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, senior associate dean for education. "The administrative Department of Academic Affairs is delighted that he is returning to his alma mater to undertake the position of associate dean for student affairs and equal opportunity programs."
"It is a distinct privilege to be able to participate in the enhancement of Weill Cornell's traditions of excellent research, education and patient care," Dr. Miller noted. "I have benefited from the solid academics of its classrooms and enjoyed the dreams of those who see into the future the continued growth of the institution that I have always loved."