Lee Todd Miller

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Medical students and faculty have consistently demonstrated their appreciation of Lee Todd Miller. He was voted nine times by the graduating senior class as the recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching at the UCLA School of Medicine. Lee’s teaching activities as co-director of the medical student teaching program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are legendary and widely known as the “Miller Rounds.” He was also awarded the “Master Teacher Award” in 1998-99 and the “Excellence in Education Award” in the latter year.

In 1994 he took an academic sabbatical when he worked with the World Health Organization. Becoming the director of the workshops, Miller taught senior faculty members of the departments of pediatrics and community medicine in Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Myanmar, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda. Additionally, Miller had a very significant role teaching during the Rwandan revolution in the refugee camps of Goma, Zaire. His worldwide efforts were recognized with a nomination for the 2001 UCLA School of Medicine for Humanism in Medicine of the Association of American Medical Colleges.