Following a national search, Anna Noel Miller, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopaedics at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Her new position began January 6.
Prior to joining Dartmouth Health, Miller served as the Jerome J Gilden, MD Distinguished Professor and vice chair of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She also held the role of inpatient medical director at Barnes Jewish Hospital and was 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, 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.
Miller 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.
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.
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.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
About the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the communities we serve through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The nation's fourth-oldest medical school, the Geisel School of Medicine has been home to many firsts in medical education, research and practice, including the discovery of the mechanism for how light resets biological clocks, creating the first multispecialty intensive care unit, the first comprehensive examination of U.S. health care cost variations (The Dartmouth Atlas), and the first Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which launched in 2010. As one of America's top medical schools, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of physician leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in health care.