Lee Miller, PhD
Research Scientist
Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, PM&R and Physiology (NU)
Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, PM&R and Physiology (NU)
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My Lab
Limb Motor Control Lab
We are working to understand the nature of the somatosensory and motor signals within the brain that control our movements.
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Dr. Miller is a neuroscientist who studies the use of a neurally controlled implantable functional electrical stimulation (FES) prosthesis to regain upper extremity function in spinal cord injury.
Location
Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91
355 East Erie
Chicago, IL 60611
Education & Training
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Education
1976 ¨C 1980
Physics, Goshen College
1990
Ph.D., Physiology, Northwestern University
1984
Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
1980
Bachelor of the Arts, Physics, Goshen College
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Fellowship
1992 ¨C 1993
Research Associate, Physiology Department, Northwestern University
1990 ¨C 1992
Post-Doctoral Research, Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Featured Research
Nature
doi: 10.1038/nature10987
Recent Publications
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160851
pii: e14316. doi: 10.7554/eLife.14316
doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/4/046009
Honors & Awards
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Elected fellow in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering2016
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Elected president of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement2015
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Elected development officer of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement2013
Work History
- 2009Professor, Physiology, PM&R, Biomedical Engineering (NU)
- 2008Associate Professor, PM&R, (NU)
- 2006Affiliated faculty member, Biomedical Engineering Dept. (NU)
- 2003Associate Professor (tenured), Physiology Department (NU)
- 2002 - 2007Appointed to the faculty of the NU IGERT program in the Dynamics of Complex Systems
- 1999Appointed to the Graduate School
- 1997Appointed to the faculty of the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience
- 1995 - 2003Assistant Professor, Physiology Department (NU)
- 1993 - 1995Research Assistant Professor, Physiology Department (NU)
