Yale Cardiovascular Medicine and the Heart and Vascular Center are pleased to announce that Elliott Miller, MD, MHS, is the new Medical Director of the YNHH Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU).
Dr. Miller received his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following, he pursued a fellowship in critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health before coming to Yale to complete cardiovascular medicine training. Subsequently, Dr. Miller joined the two-year National Clinician Scholars Program during which he received a Master of Health Sciences. We were fortunate to recruit Dr. Miller to our faculty in 2020 appointed in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Since joining the faculty, Dr. Miller has been an active member on the Code Committee/Rapid Response Committee, YNHH ICU Leadership Committee, Targeted Temperature Management working group, and Cardiac Arrest Bundle working group. He has also launched quality improvement initiatives related to mechanical ventilation in the CICU. Finally, he spearheaded Yale’s inclusion into CCCTN, the multicenter CICU registry, as well as Yale’s own CICU registry. Since July 2021, he has served as the Associate Medical Director of the CICU. We are excited to work with Dr. Miller as he establishes new pathways and expands scholarship and training programs in his new role.
Dr. Miller has large shoes to fill as he replaces Professor of Clinical Medicine Joseph Brennan, MD, who has provided exceptional leadership to the CICU over several decades. Dr. Brennan is busy during his current and well-earned sabbatical working to establish teaching modules in support of CICU training as he helps position the unit for this new era of leadership in advance of his pending retirement later this year.
Together with the HVC leadership, Dr. Miller will continue to build the cardiac intensivist group, lead quality improvement and research initiatives, and develop educational programs for residents, fellows, nurses, and advanced care providers. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Miller into this important leadership role in the Section.
Please join me in thanking Dr. Brennan for his dedicated and outstanding contributions to advancing critical care cardiovascular medicine over the years and congratulate Dr. Miller in his new role.