Research
Dr. Miller is a physician-scientist with advanced training in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Health Services Research, including specialized expertise in statistical, epidemiologic, and clinical trial methodology. His research spans a wide range of infectious disease topics, including skin infections, healthcare-associated infections, community-partnered research, MRSA, HIV/AIDS, and urinary tract infections.
Biography
Dr. Loren Miller earned his B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and a special fellowship in Ambulatory Care and Health Services Research. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree from UCLA.
Dr. Miller also serves as Associate Site Director at The Lundquist Institute campus of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), where he serves as Principal Investigator on an NIAID U01 clinical trial of community-associated skin infections in addition to dozens of ongoing clinical studies he oversees. He is Director of the Harbor-UCLA Infectious Diseases Clinical Outcomes Research Unit (ID-CORE) and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Over the course of his career, he has led numerous large, multi-center clinical studies—including epidemiologic investigations, clinical trials, cluster randomized trials, and research on clinical outcomes—most notably a 28-center cluster randomized trial on decolonization as infection prevention in nursing homes. Dedicated to mentorship, Dr. Miller has guided dozens of undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty in research.