Edward D. Miller is the Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D. Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 and the Chief Executive Officer

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 of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

He is an anesthesiologist

Anesthesiologist

An anesthesiologist or anaesthetist is a physician trained in anesthesia and peri-operative medicine....

 who has published over 150 scientific papers and other works on cardiovascular effects of anesthetic drugs

Anaesthetic drugs

An anesthetic is a drug that causes anesthesia—reversible loss of sensation. They contrast with analgesics , which relieve pain without eliminating sensation. These drugs are generally administered to facilitate surgery. A wide variety of drugs are used in modern anesthetic practice...

 and vascular smooth muscle

Vascular smooth muscle

Vascular smooth muscle refers to the particular type of smooth muscle found within, and composing the majority of the wall of blood vessels.Vascular smooth muscle contracts or relaxes to both change the volume of blood vessels and the local blood pressure, a mechanism that is responsible for the...

 relaxation.

Miller was born in 1943 in Rochester

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, N.Y., received an A.B. from Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...

 and an M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was then intern at University Hospital in Boston, chief resident

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 in anesthesiology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and research fellow in physiology at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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. He became a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

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, then professor and chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, often known as P&S, is a graduate school of Columbia University that is located on the health sciences campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan...

 of Columbia University

Columbia University

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 He become professor and director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1994, and was appointed interim dean in 1996.http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/principal_administrative_officers_and_deans/edward_d_miller/.

Honors

• President of the Association of University Anesthesiologists
• Editor of Anesthesia and Analgesia
• Editor of Critical Care Medicine
• Board of the International Anesthesia Research Society
• Chairman of the FDA's Advisory Committee on Anesthesia and Life Support Drugs
• Member of the Institute of Medicine
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   of the National Academy of Sciences
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• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
  Royal College of Physicians
  The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...
  
  
• Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
  Royal College of Anaesthetists
  The Royal College of Anaesthetists is "the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom". It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaesthetists, physician assistants - and practising critical care...