Professor of Medicine
Duke University
Dr. Rachel Miller, MD is Professor of Medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Miller received her MD degree from the University of Iowa CCOM in Iowa City, Iowa. She then completed residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas before returning to the University of Iowa for Infectious Diseases fellowship training. She joined the University of Iowa faculty upon completion of her training.
From 1996 until February 2016, Dr. Miller was a faculty member in the internal medicine department at the University of Iowa CCOM, with promotion to full professor in 2007. Upon joining the UI faculty in the mid-1990’s, she founded the solid organ transplant ID consult service. Over time, this service developed into a long standing, successful clinical initiative in terms of optimizing patient care, achieving financial sustainability and providing educational opportunities. Medical education has been another major focus throughout her career, including her service as an Associate Residency Program Director in internal medicine for 12 years. She’s had sustained involvement in scholarly projects and national committee work though the AST, IDSA and UNOS, largely related to the field of organ transplantation, throughout her career.
In March 2016, Dr. Miller joined the Transplant ID faculty at Duke University, where she continues with the clinical care of transplant recipients and is involved in several transplant associated clinical research studies, clinical operations leadership, and fellow/faculty mentoring. She served on the ID Week Program Committee for the IDSA from 2017-2019. Currently, she serves as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation and a member of the IDSA Histoplasmosis Guidelines Committee. Dr. Miller has consistently served as a lecturer at national and regional meetings and has authored over 43 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and other publications for mass distribution.