Virginia M. Miller

Virginia M. Miller is an American surgeon who is a professor and Director of the Women's Health Research Centre at the Mayo Clinic. Her research considers how sex hormones such as estrogen impact cardiovascular health.

Virginia M. Miller
Alma materUniversity of Missouri
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
InstitutionsMayo Clinic
ThesisCord-hypothalamic temperature regulation in the marmot (1976)

Early life and education

Miller earned her bachelor's degree in education at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.[1] She earned a Master of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota.[1][2] She moved to the University of Missouri for medical studies, where she specialized in physiology.[1]

Research and career

Miller has dedicated her career to better understanding women's health.[3] Miller studies sex hormones and their role in cardiovascular health. She served as Principal Investigator of the Mayo Clinic Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health scholars program.[4]

Awards and honors
  • Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health[5]
  • Women’s Day Magazine Red Dress Award[6][7]
  • Paul M. Vanhoutte Named Lecture in Vascular Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics[8]
  • Governing council for the American Physiological Society[7]
  • President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences[7]

Selected publications
  • Vanhoutte PM; Rubanyi GM; Miller VM; Houston DS (1 January 1986). "Modulation of vascular smooth muscle contraction by the endothelium". Annual Review of Physiology. 48: 307–320. doi:10.1146/ANNUREV.PH.48.030186.001515. ISSN 0066-4278. PMID 2871807. Wikidata Q39441004.
  • Victor M Miller; Haibin Xia; Ginger L Marrs; Cynthia M Gouvion; Gloria Lee; Beverly L Davidson; Henry L Paulson (2 June 2003). "Allele-specific silencing of dominant disease genes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100 (12): 7195–7200. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.7195M. doi:10.1073/PNAS.1231012100. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 165852. PMID 12782788. Wikidata Q35163317.
  • Virginia M Miller; Sue P Duckles (25 June 2008). "Vascular actions of estrogens: functional implications". Pharmacological Reviews. 60 (2): 210–241. doi:10.1124/PR.107.08002. ISSN 0031-6997. PMC 2637768. PMID 18579753. Wikidata Q37088243.

References
  1. "Virginia Miller - Gender Summit". gender-summit.com. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  2. "Virginia Miller - Director at Lutheran Hour Ministries". THE ORG. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  3. "Women's wellness: Virginia M. Miller, Ph.D., on sex and gender in research". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  4. "BIRCWH Leadership Webinars". bircwh.emory.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  5. "BioConferences International, Inc". www.bioconferences.com. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  6. Staff, Woman's Day (2017-07-18). "Red Dress Award Winners Through the Years". Woman's Day. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  7. "Mayo Researcher Receives Woman's Day Red Dress Award". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  8. Vanhoutte, Paul M. (2011). "Editorial Highlighted Meetings Series". Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 58 (6): 559. doi:10.1097/fjc.0b013e31820ae111. ISSN 0160-2446.
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