About HealthPolCom Consulting

Dr. Miller has worked to promote the development and appropriate reimbursement and uses of medical advances for more than 20 years. He started HealthPolCom Consulting in 2000, and clients have included Amgen, the Center for Medical Technology Policy, Endo, Feinstein Kean Healthcare, GE, Health Policy Solutions, Johnson & Johnson, Monitor, the New England Healthcare Institute, Pfizer, and PhRMA.

As a consultant and recognized expert about improving healthcare quality, the clinical and economic value of medical advances, and the interactions across the healthcare delivery, financing, and research systems, Dr. Miller has spoken across the country to community, professional and industry groups, been quoted by media outlets, and written extensively on these topics. Based upon his experiences communicating complex qualitative and quantitative healthcare issues to a wide variety of stakeholders, Dr. Miller created a training program for healthcare industry employees, and wrote the “Drug Pricing Principles” chapter in The Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Biotech Startup. He currently blogs and is working on a book titled Making Health Reform Work.

In October 2008, for his broad range of work to improve the quality of health care, he received an Rx for Excellence Award from the Massachusetts Medical Law Report.

Before establishing HealthPolCom, Dr. Miller was Director of Federal Relations for Pfizer, Legislative Assistant and Health Policy Advisor for Congressman Sander Levin (D-MI), Director of Facilitation & Education at Medical Alliances, Physician Advisor in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and Medical Officer in the National Institutes of Health’s Office of AIDS Research.

Dr. Miller graduated Magna Cum Laude from Williams College with a B.A. in chemistry, received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, completed his PGY-1 general surgery residency year in Burlington VT, and spent a year as a Research Fellow and Instructor in the University of Rochester’s Orthopedic Department.  He was then selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as their first Executive Branch Science Policy Fellow. During the Fellowship year, he worked in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

In a volunteer capacity, Dr. Miller activities have included working in Bread for the City’s free medical clinic in Washington DC, serving on their Board of Directors from 1997-2005, and chairing their Fundraising Committee from 1997-2002. He has also served as Secretary of the Boston Chapter of the Williams College Alumni Association, was one of the founders of the Boston Chapter of the Yale Life Science Alumni Association, and is the longstanding honorary “Team Physician” for the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps.