Dr. Neil Miller attended Harvard University, where he majored in biochemistry, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1967. He then matriculated to Johns Hopkins Medical School. After finishing medical school in 1971, he had an internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, followed by an ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute and a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, with Dr. William F. Hoyt.
Dr. Miller joined the staff of the Wilmer Eye Institute of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1975 and has been a faculty member at Johns Hopkins since then. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He was Chair of the Wilmer Resident Selection Committee for over 30 years.
Dr. Miller was president of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society from 2000 to 2002 and Chairman of its Executive Board from 2002 to 2004. He has been past president of the International Neuro-Ophthalmology Society on three occasions: in 1982, 1992, and 2008. He is also an emeritus member of the International Orbital Society. In 2009, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).
Dr. Miller was Book and Media Editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology for 5 years. He currently is an Associate Editor for the journal Translational Vision Science and Technology and has served as a reviewer for numerous journals, including the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, the British Journal of Ophthalmology, Lancet, Neurology, JAMA, JAMA Ophthalmology, Journal of Neurosurgery, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has authored or co-authored over 600 articles, 97 chapters, and 15 books, including the 4th edition of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology. With Dr. Nancy Newman of Emory University, he also edited the 5th edition of this textbook, and the two of them also wrote an abbreviated version of the textbook—Walsh and Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology: The Essentials”. The 6th edition of the full textbook, again edited by Drs. Miller and Newman with the assistance of two of their colleagues was published in December 2004, and the second edition of “The Essentials” was published in 2008. A third edition of "The Essentials", co-authored with Prem Subramanian and Vivek Patel, was published in the fall of 2015, and a fourth edition was published in September 2020. Dr. Miller also has co-authored with Anthony Pane in Australia and Michael Burdon in the UK “The Neuro-Ophthalmology Survival Guide.” The first edition of this textbook, designed for medical students, residents, and general ophthalmologists, was published in 2007. A second edition was published in 2017, and a third edition was published in 2024.
Dr. Miller has spoken at numerous local, national, and international meetings and has given 59 named lectures around the world, including the Jackson Memorial Lecture at the 2001 meeting of the AAO, the Hoyt lecture at the 2005 meeting of the AAO, the Doyne Lecture at the Oxford Congress in the UK in 2006, the Francis Heed Adler lecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, the Morris Bender lecture at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City in 2013, the Optic UK Lecture at the 2014 meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons in Birmingham, England, the Stanley Truhlsen Lecture at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2014, the Barry Cullen Lecture in Singapore in 2015, the Sally Letson Lecture in Ottawa in 2018, the José Cunha-Vaz Lecture in Portugal 2022, and the Irvine Lecture at USC in 2024. Many of Dr. Miller’s previous Fellows and residents hold faculty positions at major institutions throughout the United States and around the world.