Brian Miller, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

Biography

Dr. Brian Miller is a professor with tenure in the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at Augusta University. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University, a combined M.D./M.Ph. degree from The Ohio State University (OSU), and a Ph.D. in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the University of Oulu, Finland. He completed his general psychiatry residency and Fellowship in Psychotic Disorders at Augusta University, where he served as Chief Resident, and joined the faculty in 2010.

His research focuses on inflammation and immune dysfunction in schizophrenia, and has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Stanley Medical Research Foundation, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has been recognized with a number of awards, including the 2011 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the 2015 Augusta University Outstanding Young Clinical Science Faculty Award, the 2017 OSU College of Medicine Early Career Achievement Alumni Award. He was made a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2020.

Dr. Miller has been an editorial board member of Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry, BMC Psychiatry, Current Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, and Psychiatric Times. In addition to his research, he provides clinical care for patients with schizophrenia, and supervises and teaches residents and medical students in general psychiatry.