Background
Dr. Edgar Miller is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include hypertension and internal medicine. Dr. Miller serves as the deputy director for the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and is the director of the Clinical Research Scholars Program (KL-2).
Dr. Miller received his B.A. in science from The Pennsylvania State University, his M.A. in Oceanography and Limnology from Western Connecticut State University, and Ph.D. in marine ecology from the University of Connecticut. He earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College. He completed his internship and residency at Medical University of South Carolina and fellowship in general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
His research interests include diet and lifestyle approaches to treat and prevent hypertension and kidney disease.
Dr. Miller has joint appointments in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and the School of Nursing. He has served as a grant reviewer and Key informant for NIH career development awards and for hypertension work groups. He was awarded the Levine mentorship award by the Department of Medicine and Teaching Excellence awards by the School of Public Health for his course on advanced topics in cardiovascuilar disease epidemiology.