Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, FSAHM

Administrative Assistant: Latisha Adair-Johnson

Liz Miller is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational Science and holds the Edmund R. McCluskey Chair in Pediatric Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a physician in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine with a focus on youth who are system involved, and Medical Director of Community and Population Health at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She served as Division Director of Adolescent and  Young Adult Medicine from 2011- 2023. She serves as the Academic Co-Director of Community PARTners (the community engagement core) for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. She is co-lead of a community partnered, collective impact initiative in Allegheny County called The Pittsburgh Study that promotes racial equity and child thriving.

Trained in internal medicine, pediatrics and medical anthropology, she has over 20 years of practice and community-partnered research experience in addressing interpersonal violence prevention among adolescents and young adults in clinical and community settings. With diverse funding from National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Women’s Health, and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs, she has developed and tested clinical and community-based interventions in collaboration with youth, patients, health care providers, victim service advocates, public health administrators, educators, and school administrators.

She has conducted several large-scale, community-partnered research studies including a randomized controlled trial of an athletic coach-delivered gender-based violence prevention program across 41 middle schools (R01CE002543), a youth violence prevention intervention titled Manhood 2.0 across 21 neighborhoods with concentrated disadvantage in Pittsburgh (U01CE002528), and a sexual violence intervention with 28 college campus student health and counseling centers (R01 AA023260). Her team is fielding three cluster-randomized trials, one evaluating a racial and gender justice-focused youth violence prevention program in community settings (R01MD013797), the renewal of the college campus sexual violence prevention study (2R01AA023260), and a community resiliency building intervention to reduce community violence (U01CE003524). Her research has resulted in over 400 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous book chapters, commentaries, and clinical guidelines.

She has participated in numerous legislative hearings related to protecting adolescent confidentiality, adolescent reproductive health, and adolescent relationship abuse and intimate partner violence prevention. Her work on reproductive coercion and birth control sabotage has resulted in changes in national clinical practice guidelines. She conducts research in partnership with community health clinics testing brief clinical interventions to address partner violence and reproductive coercion in community health care and school health settings. She is involved in developing and testing primary violence prevention programs, including one titled “Coaching Boys into Men” which involves training coaches to talk to their male athletes about stopping violence against women.

She also co-directs, with Ms. Felicia Savage Friedman, a landmark collective impact, community-partnered initiative called The Pittsburgh Study that seeks to identify and evaluate best practices to support child and adolescent health and thriving. As a mixed-methods intervention researcher trained in community-partnered participatory research, she has taught courses in community engagement and translating research for policy and practice.

Miller has a strong track record of mentoring learners at various stages in community-engaged, patient-oriented research (including F, T, and K awards). She received the Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education. She provides guidance on clinical and social aspects of adolescent and young adult development, including provision of clinical care for youth who are court-involved, child welfare-involved, and who are unstably housed.

She has received regional and national awards for her dedication to serving populations who have been impacted by marginalization and oppression including an award from the governor as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. She is recognized for her contributions to community-partnered research, mixed methods prevention and intervention research, expertise in clinical and health services research, health equity-focused programs and research with youth experiencing marginalization, commitment to community-partnered research and collaborative team science, and knowledge of how to translate research into practice and policy change. 

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

• American Academy of Pediatrics, 1997-Present
  • ​Fellow, 2005
  • Council on Community Pediatrics and Committee on Adolescence, Member
• American College of Physicians – American Society of Internal Medicine Fellow, 2001-2008
• Academic Pediatrics Association, Member, 2002-Present
• Community Campus Partnerships in Health, Member, 2002-Present
• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2005-Present
  • Fellow, 2015; Board Member At Large 2024 - present
• Society for Pediatric Research, Member (by nomination), 2011-Present
• Association of American Physicians, Member (by nomination), 2019-Present