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Recognizing and honoring Dr. Eydie Miller-Ellis for her unwavering commitment to the advancement of the careers and goals of women and minorities in the field of medicine.
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WHEREAS, Eydie Miller-Ellis, MD pursued her B.A. in Chemistry at Duke University and her medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Miller then completed an internship in internal medicine at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania in 1985, and completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1989. Dr. Miller subsequently pursued a fellowship in glaucoma at Yale University School of Medicine from 1989 to 1990; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Miller was appointed Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine in 1990. She was then named Associate Professor at Yale in 1996. In 1999, Dr. Miller served as Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and came to the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. She has served as a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania since 2007, as well as Chief of the Glaucoma Service and Director of the Glaucoma Fellowship Program at the Scheie Eye Institute. Additionally, she serves as the Director of the Glaucoma Service at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center. Dr. Miller was selected as a member of the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians in 2014, which recognizes her highest standards for clinical care, humanism, and professionalism; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Miller serves as the Diversity Officer on the Ophthalmology Department Committee on Appointments and Promotions. She served on the Women in Medicine Executive Council during her time at Virginia Commonwealth University and acted as Program Chair at the 2010 Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium. Dr. Miller was presented with the Women in Ophthalmology Suzanne Veronneau Troutman Award in 2011, which recognizes the woman who has done the most over the past year to further women in O...
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