Lectureships

The Miller Lecture

In March 2004, Leslie A. Miller and Sarah Miller Coulson established the Miller Lecture to honor their parents, Mr. G. Thomas Miller and Mrs. Anne G. Miller.  This annual lecture allows the Center for Innovative Medicine to invite internationally recognized experts to speak to the Johns Hopkins community about important aspects of the patient-doctor relationship. 

1st Annual Miller Lecture - 2004
Stephen J. McPhee, M.D., Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco

2nd Annual Miller Lecture - 2005
John H. Stone, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Emory University

3rd Annual Miller Lecture - 2006
Stephen J. McPhee, M.D., Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco

4th Annual Miller Lecture - 2007
William R. Brody, President of The Johns Hopkins University

5th Annual Miller Lecture - 2008
Holly J. Humphrey, M.D., FACP, Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education, University of Chicago

6th Annual Miller Lecture - 2009
David Wessel, Washington Bureau Chief & Economics editor of the Wall Street Journal.

7th Annual Miller Lecture - 2010
Abraham Verghese, M.D, Author and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

The 8th Annual Miller Lecture was held Tuesday, April 27th, 2011. This year's speaker was Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., FCCM, an internationally acclaimed thought leader in patient safety and change leadership. Dr. Pronovost  is a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a researcher and professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Professor in the School of Medicine (Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Surgery departments), in the Bloomberg School of Public Health (Dept of Health Policy and Management), and in the School of Nursing. He is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. 

As one of his most notable contributions, he introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that saved 1,500 lives and $100 million in Michigan during its during its first 18 months. Dr. Pronovost (coauthor Eric Vohr) published a book on patient safety titled " Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out".

He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant," for his work and was named one of the world's "most influential people" of 2008 by Time magazine.