James Douglas Miller

James Douglas Miller FRSE (20 July 1937 – 23 August 1995) was a Scottish neurosurgeon of international repute. The Douglas Miller Memorial Lecture is named in his honour.

Life

He was born in Glasgow on 20 July 1937. His father was an executive at Collins the publisher. He was educated at Glasgow Academy then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating with an MB ChB. Meeting Bryan Jennett he was inspired to be a neurosurgeon.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-douglas-miller-1598005.html|title=OBITUARY : Professor Douglas Miller|date=1995-08-26|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-06-17|archive-date=17 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617122431/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-douglas-miller-1598005.html|url-status=live}}

From 1962 to 1965 he was Surgical Senior House Officer at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. From 1965 to 1967 he was a Medical Research Council Fellow. In 1969 he went to America to the University of Pennsylvania to study under Dr Langfitt. In 1971 he returned to Scotland and began lecturing in neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow. In 1975 he became Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Virginia and in 1981 returned to Scotland as Professor of Surgical Neurology at the University of Edinburgh.{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Phillip |title=JAMES DOUGLAS MILLER |url=http://rse.mtcserver6.com/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/miller_james.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915070917/http://rse.mtcserver6.com/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/miller_james.pdf |archive-date=September 15, 2017 |url-status=dead}} He was also a practising neurosurgeon at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital. Noted Indian neurosurgeon B. K. Misra is one of his students.{{Cite web|url=https://neurosocietyindia.com/|title=Neurological Society of India – The Neurological Society of India is the apex body representing neuroscientists in India.|access-date=1 July 2024|archive-date=1 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701165600/https://neurosocietyindia.com/|url-status=live}}

In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Phillip Harris, Cameron Gould, Sir Patrick Forrest and Sir Abraham Goldberg.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=14 September 2017|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}

He died of a heart attack in Edinburgh on 23 August 1995.

Family

In 1965 he was married to Margaret (Margot) Rainey. They had two sons, Derek and Kenneth.

References

Category:Scottish neurosurgeons

Category:Alumni of the University of Glasgow

Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Category:Medical doctors from Glasgow

Category:People educated at the Glasgow Academy

Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni

Category:University of Virginia faculty

Category:1937 births

Category:1995 deaths

Category:20th-century Scottish surgeons