Josef M. Miller

Background

Miller, Josef M. was born on November 29, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Bachelor in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology and Psychology, U. Washington, 1965; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Göteborg, Sweden, 1987; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), U. Turku, Finland, 1995.

Career

United States Public Health Service fellow, University of Michigan, 1965-1967; research associate, assistant professor department Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967-1968; professor, director research department Otolaryngology, director Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1984; assistant professor departments Otolaryngology, Physiology and Biophysics, U. Washington, Seattle, 1968-1972; research affiliate Regional Primate Research Ctr, U. Washington, Seattle, 1968-1984; associate professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1972-1976; acting department chairman Otolaryngology, U. Washington, Seattle, 1975-1976; professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1976-1984. Member study section National Institute Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 1978-1984, ad hoc board directors science counselors, 1988. Science review committee Deafness Research Foundation, 1978-1983, chair, since 1983.

Member of faculty National Conference Research Goals and Methods in Otolaryngology, 1982. Advising committee hearing, bio-acoustics and biomechanics Commission Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, since 1983. Honorary committee Organisation Nobel Symposium 63, Cellular Mechanisms in Hearing, Karlskoga, Sweden, 1985.

Consultant Otitis Media Research Center, 1985-1989, Pfizer Corporation, 1988. Faculty opponent U. Gôteborg, Sweden, 1987. Research advising committee Galludet College, 1987;chair external science advising committee House Ear Institute, 1988-1991.

Author authorizing legislation National Institute Deafness and Other Comm. Disorders, National Institutes of Health, 1988, co-chair advisory board research priorities committee, board directors Friends advisory county, since 1989, chair research subcommittee, 1990-1993, treasurer, board directors, since 1996. Grant reviewer Michigan State Research Fund, National Science Foundation, VA.

Reviewer numerous journals including Acta Otolaryngologica, Journal Otology, Physiology and Behavior, Science.

Achievements

• Josef M. Miller has been listed as a noteworthy Otolaryngologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors International Hearing Foundation, since 1985. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (committee research in otolaryngology 1971-1982, continuing education committee 1975-1979, National Institutes of Health liaison committee since 1988, program steering committee journal 1990, President Citation 1997), American Auditory Society, American Otological Society, American Neurotological Society, American Otologic Honor Society, Acoustical Society American (committee research psychological, physiological acoustics 1969-1978), Federation American Physiological Society, Federation American Socs. Experimental Biology, Society Neurosci., Association Research Otolaryngology (secretary-treasurer 1979-1980, president elect 1981, president 1982. program director meeting 1983, award of merit committee 1985, 95-96, chair 1988, program director, president symposium homeostatic mechanic of inner ear 1993), Finnish Academy Otolaryngology (honorary), Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married, 1960; 3 children.