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 JAMES ALEXANDER MILLER, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM I92I-IQ22 



JAMES ALEXANDER MILLER, who has already served 

 the Association as vice-president from 1916-1917 and 

 from 1920-1921, was born in Roselle, N. J., March 27, 

 1874, being the son of Charles Dexter and Julia Hope Miller. 

 Young Miller became a Bachelor of Arts of Princeton in 1893, 

 an A.M. of the same university in 1894, and an M.D. of Columbia 

 University, 1899. He served as intern in the Presbyterian Hos- 

 pital, New York, from 1899 to 1901. Dr. Miller's interest in 

 tuberculosis was aroused by no less a teacher and pioneer in 

 tuberculosis science than the famous Trudeau. The summer 

 after leaving the Presbyterian Hospital Dr. Miller went up to 

 Paul Smith's to assist Dr. Trudeau who then did general practice 

 during the summer months at that resort. It was but natural 

 that the young physician, being inspired by Dr. Trudeau's per- 

 sonality, enthusiasm, and achievements in tuberculosis, should 

 himself become so deeply interested as to make tuberculosis his 

 life's work. On his return to New York and to the Vanderbilt 

 Dispensary, to which he was attached, he urged the establish- 

 ment of special tuberculosis classes. He was supported in this 

 work by his teacher and friend, Dr. Walter B. James, then pro- 

 fessor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the 

 medical department of Columbia University. Dr. Miller is now 

 himself professor of clinical medicine in that school. From the 

 time he inaugurated the tuberculosis classes connected with the 

 Vanderbilt Hospital he has been an untiring worker in his chosen 

 specialty, so that to-day he occupies the enviable position of 

 leader in the an ti- tuberculosis work in New York city. He is 

 visiting physician at Bellevue Hospital; physician in charge of 

 the tuberculosis division of Bellevue Hospital; special consultant 



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