Biosketch

Dr. Franklin Miller's current research focuses on ethical issues in clinical research, including study design, informed consent, and the ways in which clinical research differs from medical care. 

Dr. Miller serves on the Neuroscience Institutional Review Board of the NIH Intramural Research Program and the Ethics Committee for the Clinical Center.  He co-leads a seminar for psychiatric research fellows on ethical issues in psychiatric research and coordinates the bioethics seminar for first-year fellows in the Department of Bioethics.  

Dr. Miller joined the Department of Bioethics in 1999.  From 1990 through 1998, he was on the faculty of the University of Virginia, where he taught various courses in bioethics.  Dr. Miller has written numerous published articles in medical and bioethics journals on the ethics of clinical research, ethical issues concerning death and dying, professional integrity, and pragmatism and bioethics.  Dr. Miller is a fellow of the Hastings Center, a faculty affiliate at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and associate professor of Public Health in the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College.

Selected Publications

BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS

Emanuel EJ, Crouch RA, Grady C, Lie R, Miller FG, Wendler D, eds.  The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, in press.

Miller FG, Fletcher JC, Humber JH, eds.  The Nature and Prospect of Bioethics:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives.  Humana Press, 2003.

Miller FG, ed. Frontiers in Bioethics:  Essays Dedicated to John C. Fletcher.  University Publishing Group, 2000.

Miller FG, Rosenstein DL.  The ethics of psychiatric research.  In:  Bloch S and Green S.  Psychiatric Ethics, 4th ed.  Oxford University Press, in press.

Miller FG, Fins JJ.  Protecting human subjects in brain research:  a pragmatic perspective.  In:  Illes J, ed. Neuroethics, Oxford University Press, 2006.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Miller FG, Wertheimer A.  Facing up to paternalism in research ethics.  Hastings Center Report 2007;37(3):24-34.

Miller FG, Joffe S.  Evaluating the therapeutic misconception.  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2006;16:353-66.

Miller FG, Wendler D, Swartzman L.  Deception in research on the placebo effect.  PLoS Medicine 2005;2(9):e262.

Miller FG, Brody H.  Professional integrity in industry-sponsored clinical trials.  Academic Medicine 2005;80:899-904.

Miller FG, Emanuel EJ, Rosenstein DL, Straus SE.  Ethical issues concerning research on complementary and alternative medicine.  JAMA 2004;291:599-604.

Miller FG, Rosenstein DL.  The therapeutic orientation to clinical trials.  New England Journal of Medicine.  2003;348:1383-86.

Miller FG, Brody H.  A critique of clinical equipoise: Therapeutic misconception in the ethics of clinical trials.  Hastings Center Report. 2003;33(3):19-28.

Miller FG.  Sham surgery:  an ethical analysis.  American Journal of Bioethics 2003;3(4):41-8.

Horng S, Miller FG. Is placebo surgery unethical?  New England Journal of Medicine.  2002; 347:137-9.

Miller FG, Rosenstein DL.  Reporting of ethical issues in publications of medical research.   Lancet.  2002;360:1326-28.

Emanuel EJ, Miller FG. The ethics of placebo-controlled trials-a middle ground.  New England Journal of Medicine. 2001;345:915-9.

Miller FG, Grady C. The ethical challenge of infection-inducing challenge experiments.  Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2001;33:1028-33.

Miller FG.  Placebo-controlled trials in psychiatric research:  an ethical perspective.  Biological Psychiatry. 2000;47:707-16.

Miller FG, Rosenstein DL, DeRenzo EG.  Professional integrity in clinical research.  Journal of the American Medical Association. 1998;280:1449-54.

Miller FG, Rosenstein DL.  Psychiatric symptom-provoking studies:  an ethical appraisal. Biological Psychiatry. 1997;42:403-9.