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

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.

Clinical Trials

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Recruiting
• To evaluate the safety and efficacy for GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis in the treatment of Thoracic Aortic disease No longer recruiting

Publications

• The effect of pure mitral regurgitation on mitral annular geometry and three-dimensional saddle shape. Nguyen TC, Itoh A, Carlhäll CJ, Bothe W, Timek TA, Ennis DB, Oakes RA, Liang D, Daughters GT, Ingels NB, Miller DC. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008; 136 (3): 557-65
• Myofiber angle distributions in the ovine left ventricle do not conform to computationally optimized predictions. Ennis DB, Nguyen TC, Riboh JC, Wigström L, Harrington KB, Daughters GT, Ingels NB, Miller DC. J Biomech. 2008; 41 (15): 3219-24
• Heterogeneity of left ventricular wall thickening mechanisms. Cheng A, Nguyen TC, Malinowski M, Daughters GT, Miller DC, Ingels NB. Circulation. 2008; 118 (7): 713-21
• 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; 135 (4): 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; 362 (1484): 1407-19