D. Craig Miller, M.D.

Clinical Focus

• Thoracic Surgery
• Cardiothoracic Surgery

Honors and Awards

• President, American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) (2007-2008)
• Distinguished Scientist, American Heart Association (AHA) (2003)
• President, Western Thoracic Surgical Association (1994-1995)
• Antoine Marfan Award, National Marfans Foundation (2001)
• Distinguished Achievement Award, American Heart Association (AHA) CVSA Council (2008)

Professional Education

• Board Certification: Vascular Surgery, (1983)
• Residency: SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (1977)
• Residency: SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (1975)
• Medical Education: Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (1972)
• none, Dartmouth College, Chemistry/Mathemetics (1968)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Wolfgang Bothe, John-Peder Kvitting, Julia Swanson-Birchill

Research Interests

Cardiac and heart valve disease with experimental laboratory large animal projects focused on the investigation of left ventricular and cardiac mechanics, bioenergetics, and LV and mitral valve physiology and pathophysiology. Current thrust is aimed at understanding the mitral valve and subvalvular mitral apparatus and transmural LV wall strains, thickening, and myolaminar fiber-sheet mechanics.

Clinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aortic dissection, aneurysm) and cardiac valvular disease, including surgical treatment, endovascular thoracic aortic stent-graft repair, mitral valve repair, and valve-sparing aortic root replacement.

Publications

• The aortopathy of bicuspid aortic valve disease has distinctive patterns and usually involves the transverse aortic arch. Fazel SS, Mallidi HR, Lee RS, Sheehan MP, Liang D, Fleischman D, Herfkens R, Mitchell RS, Miller DC "J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg" 2008 ; 4 (135) : 901-7, 907.e1-2
• Aortic root dynamics and surgery: from craft to science. Cheng A, Dagum P, Miller DC "Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci" 2007 ; 1484 (362) : 1407-19
• Valve-sparing aortic root replacement: current state of the art and where are we headed? Miller DC, "Ann Thorac Surg" 2007 ; 2 (83) : S736-9; discussion S785-90
• Direct measurement of transmural laminar architecture in the anterolateral wall of the ovine left ventricle: new implications for wall thickening mechanics. Harrington KB, Rodriguez F, Cheng A, Langer F, Ashikaga H, Daughters GT, Criscione JC, Ingels NB, Miller DC "Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol" 2005 ; 3 (288) : H1324-30
• Does septal-lateral annular cinching work for chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation? Tibayan FA, Rodriguez F, Langer F, Zasio MK, Bailey L, Liang D, Daughters GT, Ingels NB, Miller DC "J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg" 2004 ; 3 (127) : 654-63