Miller Named Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Joshua Miller, M.D., research professor in surgery-organ transplantation at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, has been named the Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery.

Dr. Miller came to Feinberg in 2007 after 27 years at the University of Miami, 24 of them as director of the Renal Transplant Program. At Northwestern, he developed a clinical immunological monitoring laboratory for organ transplant recipients.

Dr. Miller introduced transplant protocols, translating a lifetime of basic science investigation into one of the first clinical applications of immune induction of tolerance in the world. As a result of his work, Northwestern is considered an epicenter for achieving immune tolerance following kidney transplantation.

The American Society of Transplant Surgeons awarded Dr. Miller the Pioneer Achievement Award at their annual meeting in Philadelphia this year.

The need for kidney transplantation doesn't match our capacity.

Lorenzo Gallon of Feinberg is among those to say doctors should consider trying to reuse more organs to ease a shortage