Jason
Miller

Jason Miller, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and the James Grosfeld Professor at the Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan. His clinical practice focuses on dry age-related macular degeneration, while his lab is dedicated to studying how dysregulation of lipid handling by the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) triggers dry AMD. Complementing Jason’s bench lab research, Jason is the site lead or co-lead for clinical trials related to dry AMD.

Among Jason’s departmental roles, he oversees training of residents in retinal imaging, serves as the Associate Fellowship Director for the medical retina fellowship, and is in charge of attracting and retaining physician-scientists to the department’s residency program. Finally, Jason oversees the department’s dry AMD philanthropic research efforts, termed the James Grosfeld Initiative in Dry AMD, which includes programs to support trainees, collaborative grants, equipment purchases, clinical research initiatives, and more.

Dr. Miller completed his undergraduate degree in biology with departmental honors and university distinction at Stanford University and his MD and PhD at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Seeking to combine his post-graduate medical and scientific training, he was the inaugural awardee for the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center’s Pre-Residency Research Fellowship, which allowed for establishment of an independent research program prior to joining the ophthalmology residency. Staying on at Michigan after residency, Jason completed a medical retina and research fellowship before joining the faculty in fall of 2021. Among Jason’s awards are the Terry Bergstrom Faculty Teaching Award, given by the department’s residents to a single faculty member among 140+ faculty, the Macula Society Gragoudas Award, the Retina Society Margherio Award, a Hinton Scholar award from the Ryan Initiative for Macular Research, and induction into both the Macula Society and Retina Society.