Randolph A. Miller Biographical File
Abstract
Includes CDs, newspaper articles, journal articles, publications.
Dates
- Creation: 1948-
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Biographical / Historical
Randolph A. Miller majored in Physics at Princeton, then enrolled in medical school at the University of Pittsburgh in 1971. In 1973, he joined the pioneering INTERNIST-I computer-assisted medical diagnosis project, working under Dr. Jack D. Myers, a renowned former Chairman of Medicine at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, and Harry E. Pople, Jr., a brilliant computer scientist. After taking a year-long sabbatical from medical school to do informatics research, he graduated in 1976, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 1979.
In 2004, Vanderbilt made him a University Professor, and provided an endowed chair. He received Vanderbilt’s 2004 William J. Darby Award for Translational Research.
Source: https://www.vumc.org/dbmi/person/randolph-miller-md-facmi
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0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- Randolph A. Miller Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-04-09
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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