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Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD

Job Title Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Job Title Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Division of Adolescent Medicine

3420 Fifth Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-6677 Phone

412-692-8584 Fax

Email elizabeth.miller@chp.edu

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Active Research Projects

Education and Training

Medical School:

1994 MD, Harvard Medical School
1994 PhD, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard Medical School

Memberships

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
Society for Pediatric Research
Academic Pediatrics Association
American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow

Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Internal Medicine
Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare

Awards

Teaching

2009 Hand-in-Hand Community Medicine Teaching Award, Communities and Physicians Together (partnership with UC Davis Health System)
2006 Humanism in Medicine Award, HMS Faculty Nominee, Association of American of Medical Colleges

Research

2010 Eli Gold Award, UC Davis Department of Pediatrics
2009 Nickens Faculty Fellowship Award, Association of American Medical Colleges

Community Service

2012 Certificate of Recognition, Teen Dating Violence Awareness, California State Legislature
2011 Voices of Courage, Persevering Provider, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte,Sacramento, Ca.
2010 Pillars of Promise Award for Excellence in Adolescent Health, Emerge Coalition, Sacramento, Ca.
2006 Liz Miller Scholarship for Revere High School Student, Revere, Mass.
2006 Certificate of Recognition for Service to Youth, Massachusetts House of Representatives

Publications

Recent and Selected

Miller E, Tancredi DJ, McCauley H, Decker MR, Virata MC, Anderson H, Stetkevich N, Brown E, Moideen F, Silverman JG. “Coaching Boys into Men:” A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Dating Violence Prevention Program. Journal of Adolescent Health (In Press)
Miller E, Levenson R, Herrera L, Kurek L, Marin L. Exposure to Partner, Family, and Community Violence: Missing Links in Young Latina Women’s Risk for Unintended Pregnancy. Journal of Urban Health 2012; 89(1): 74-86.
Miller E, Breslau J, Chung WJ, Green JG, McLaughlin KA, Kessler RC. Adverse childhood experiences and risk of physical violence in adolescent dating relationships. Journal of epidemiology and community health. 2011 Nov; 65 (11):1006-13.
Miller E, Decker MR, McCauley HL, Tancredi DJ, Levenson RR, Waldman J, Schoenwald P, Silverman JG. A family planning clinic partner violence intervention to reduce risk associated with reproductive coercion. Contraception. 2011 Mar; 83 (3):274-80.
Miller E, Decker MR, McCauley HL, Tancredi DJ, Levenson RR, Waldman J, Schoenwald P, Silverman JG. Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy. Contraception. 2010 Apr; 81 (4):316-22.

Research Interests

Adolescent health; youth violence
Gender-based violence; teen dating violence
Community health; Community-based participatory research
Cross-cultural care education and health disparities
Translational research
Medical anthropology

Biography Summary

Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, is chief of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Trained in medical anthropology as well as internal medicine and pediatrics, Dr. Miller’s research has included examination of sex trafficking among adolescents in Asia, teen dating abuse, and reproductive health, with a focus on underserved youth populations including pregnant and parenting teens; and foster, homeless, and gang-affiliated youth. Her current research focuses on the impact of gender-based violence on young women’s reproductive health.

She conducts research on brief clinical interventions to reduce partner violence and unintended pregnancy, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Justice. In addition, she is conducting a study of a sexual violence prevention program entitled “Coaching Boys into Men” which involves training coaches to talk to their young male athletes about stopping violence against women, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is also involved in projects to reduce gender-based violence and improve adolescent and young adult women’s health in India and Japan.

Active Research Projects / Grants

Family Planning-based Partner Abuse Intervention to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy
Evaluation of Coaching Boys into Men Training Program in US and India
Randomized Controlled Trial of an Adolescent Partner Violence Perpetration Prevention Program – Coaching Boys into Men
An Adolescent Health Care Provider Toolkit to Address Teen Dating Abuse
Project Connect: Building Public Health Partnerships to Address Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Reproductive Coercion

Last Update
April 2, 2012

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