About Michael D. Miller, MD
Dr. Miller is a health care and life sciences expert. For more than 30 years, Dr. Miller has been supporting the development, reimbursement, and appropriate use of clinical and scientific innovations to expand access to better, more affordable care and improve outcomes.
He helps organizations achieve their objectives by creating knowledge-based strategies and executable tactics that integrate the roles, concerns, and needs of patients, clinicians, provider organizations, businesses, community-based organizations, and local and national governments. These multi-stakeholder strategies and tactics are designed to improve health, health care markets, and clinical and economic outcomes by incorporating integrated analyses of clinical, scientific, economic, stakeholder, and policy aspects of critical issues, and aligning key internal and external perspectives.
In his work as a health care and life sciences expert, Dr. Miller has worked with large and small organizations and private companies, including AdvaMed, Amgen, Ariadne Labs, Bread for the City, Breakaway Policy Strategies, CITL, Center for Medical Technology Policy, Cytokinetics, Endo, Feinstein Kean Healthcare, Foley Hoag, GE healthymagination, Gilead, HealthyWomen, Johnson & Johnson, Lever, Inc., Monitor, NEHI, Novartis, OnDeck Biotech, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, Pfizer, and PhRMA. He has also worked with governmental organizations, including the National Governors Association (and various state agencies and executives), the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the National Institutes of Health, and the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
He currently serves as the Convener and Facilitator of the Scientific Advisory Board for Why We Vax, which is a non-profit focused on providing information vaccines and promoting confidence in their use. Dr. Miller has served as a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs who are competing in Lever Inc. challenges, and through the Entrepreneurs for All program. He also is a mentor to a student in Williams College’s Global Scholars program.
Projects have involved new financing and delivery models, reimbursement practices, government programs, telehealth, IP protection, and innovations for specific clinical conditions and populations to achieve measurable clinical and economic improvements. Clinical areas have included autoimmune diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, COPD, diabetes, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, mental illnesses, musculoskeletal conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, osteoporosis, pain and opioids, public health, prevention, vaccines, and women’s health.
In addition to Dr. Miller’s various work projects, he has also spoken and written extensively about the interactions across the health care delivery, financing, research, and public health systems. One such publication is Dr. Miller’s “Drug Pricing Principles” chapter in The Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Biotech Startup. In addition to this publication, Dr. Miller began writing the Health Policy and Communications blog in 2008, created a communications training program for industry employees, wrote several drafts of a book about practical solutions for improving health and health care in the United States, and in 2024 is finishing a book titled “Reversing Misinformation: How to Help Your Family, Friends & Community.”
Based upon his experiences helping a wide variety of stakeholders solve health care problems, in October 2008, Dr. Miller received the Rx for Excellence Leaders in Quality award from the Massachusetts Medical Law Report.
Dr. Miller graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a B.A. in chemistry, and received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Miller has volunteered in Bread for the City’s free medical clinic in Washington DC, served on their Board of Directors, and chaired their Fundraising Committee. He has also assisted Bread for the City’s CEO with major speaking engagements and strategic planning activities. He was the Secretary of the Williams College DC and Boston Regional Alumni Associations, was a founding co-chairs of the Yale Life Sciences Alumni Association’s Boston Chapter, was the longstanding honorary “Team Physician” for the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps, and many years ago became an Eagle Scout.
