Virginia M. Miller

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Virginia M. Miller
Alma materUniversity of Missouri
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
InstitutionsMayo Clinic
ThesisCord-hypothalamic temperature regulation in the marmot (1976)

Virginia M. Miller is an American surgeon who is a professor and Director of the Women's Health Research Centre at the Mayo Clinic. Her research considers how sex hormones such as estrogen impact cardiovascular health.

Early life and education[]

Miller earned her bachelor's degree in education at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.[1] She earned a Master of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota.[1][2] She moved to the University of Missouri for medical studies, where she specialized in physiology.[1]

Research and career[]

Miller has dedicated her career to better understanding women's health.[3] Miller studies sex hormones and their role in cardiovascular health. She served as Principal Investigator of the Mayo Clinic Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health scholars program.[4]

Awards and honors[]

  • Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health[5]
  • Women’s Day Magazine Red Dress Award[6][7]
  • Paul M. Vanhoutte Named Lecture in Vascular Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics[8]
  • Governing council for the American Physiological Society[7]
  • President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences[7]

Selected publications[]

  • Vanhoutte PM; Rubanyi GM; Miller VM; Houston DS (1 January 1986). "Modulation of vascular smooth muscle contraction by the endothelium". Annual Review of Physiology. 48: 307–320. doi:10.1146/ANNUREV.PH.48.030186.001515. ISSN 0066-4278. PMID 2871807. Wikidata Q39441004.
  • Victor M Miller; Haibin Xia; Ginger L Marrs; Cynthia M Gouvion; Gloria Lee; Beverly L Davidson; Henry L Paulson (2 June 2003). "Allele-specific silencing of dominant disease genes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100 (12): 7195–7200. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.7195M. doi:10.1073/PNAS.1231012100. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 165852. PMID 12782788. Wikidata Q35163317.
  • Virginia M Miller; Sue P Duckles (25 June 2008). "Vascular actions of estrogens: functional implications". Pharmacological Reviews. 60 (2): 210–241. doi:10.1124/PR.107.08002. ISSN 0031-6997. PMC 2637768. PMID 18579753. Wikidata Q37088243.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Virginia Miller - Gender Summit". gender-summit.com. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  2. ^ "Virginia Miller - Director at Lutheran Hour Ministries". THE ORG. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  3. ^ "Women's wellness: Virginia M. Miller, Ph.D., on sex and gender in research". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  4. ^ "BIRCWH Leadership Webinars". bircwh.emory.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  5. ^ "BioConferences International, Inc". www.bioconferences.com. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  6. ^ Staff, Woman's Day (2017-07-18). "Red Dress Award Winners Through the Years". Woman's Day. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  7. ^ a b c "Mayo Researcher Receives Woman's Day Red Dress Award". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  8. ^ Vanhoutte, Paul M. (2011). "Editorial Highlighted Meetings Series". Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 58 (6): 559. doi:10.1097/fjc.0b013e31820ae111. ISSN 0160-2446.
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