We are pleased to announce that following a national search, Anna Noel Miller, MD, has been named Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She will begin work in December 2024.
Dr. Miller is currently the Jerome J Gilden, MD Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She also serves as Inpatient Medical Director at Barnes Jewish Hospital and is an adjunct associate professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
In addition to expertise in orthopaedics, Dr. Miller has extensive leadership experience through institutional committee service across the Wake Forest Baptist Health and Washington University School of Medicine health systems, as well as nationally through the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration’s Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network. She has also served on multiple educational and student advisory committees, as well as committee work focused on quality improvement, inpatient operations, clinical affairs and surgery.
She has held leadership positions at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine since 2011, serving in faculty positions in orthopaedic surgery and orthopaedic trauma, and as an associate for Wake Forest’s Women’s Health Center of Excellence for Research. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, and the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association. Her awards and recognitions include Exceptional Women in Medicine 2019-2023, Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine Award, 2023-2023, and Best Doctors in America, 2015-2023.
Dr. Miller has also served on the Board of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, in additional to leading the orthopaedic section of the National Committee on Trauma. She is an examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is currently an Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellow.
Dr. Miller received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, followed by a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle.
We look forward to welcoming Anna to Dartmouth Health and Geisel in her new role, which will begin on December 23. We are very grateful to Kevin McGuire, MD Section Chief, Dartmouth Health Center for Pain and Spine and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Geisel School of Medicine, for his steadfast leadership of the department during the search process and for advancing and developing orthopaedic care and education across our institutions.
Duane Compton, PhD, Dean, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Edward J. Merrens, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Dartmouth Health