DIT appoints Adjunct Professor to School of Physics
DIT is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr William L. Miller as Adjunct Professor to the School of Physics, College of Sciences & Health. Dr Miller is an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Houston, College of Optometry and is Chair of the Clinical Sciences Department. He publishes and conducts research in the area of contact lenses and the ocular surface. As part of an active research institute, Texas Eye Research and Technology Center, Dr. Miller has presented his research in multiple venues including Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Mexico and India. He has authored or co-authored in peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed publications and maintains an active column as a contributing editor in the journal Contact Lens Spectrum, with an international readership of nearly 35,000. Dr. Miller is the author of a chapter entitled “Refractive Correction with Refractive Surgeries and Prosthetic Devices” for the most recent edition of Borish’s Clinical Refraction (2006) as well as authoring chapters in the Ocular Therapeutics Handbook- A clinical manual (2011).
He has also maintained an active role in continuing education by lecturing to fellow colleagues nationally and internationally in the area of ocular surface, contact lens research and evidenced-based patient care. He serves on the editorial board of Eye and Contact Lens and Optometry (Journal of the American Optometric Association). Dr. Miller also writes a research column for the Ocular Surface Society of Optometry Newsletter and is Editor of Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Update (clasu.org).Dr. Miller earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA. He received his professional optometric degree (O.D.) from The Ohio State University and completed a combined M.S./Residency in the Cornea and Contact Lens program. Dr. Miller also earned a Ph.D. in Physiological Optics at The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a member of the European Academy of Optometry and Optics, American Optometric Association, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ocular Surface Society of Optometry and Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society.
Prior to coming to the University of Houston, Dr. Miller spent five years on the faculty of the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, TN. He accepted a faculty position at the University of Houston in 1999 and served as the service director for the cornea and contact lens service before assuming his current position as Department Chair. He is involved in both didactic and clinical education at the University of Houston as well as providing patient care in the University Eye Institute. He is a licensed therapeutic optometrist with glaucoma certification in the state of Texas. Dr. Miller’s clinical research focuses on the effects of contact lenses and refractive surgery on the ocular surface.
Dr. Miller has received several teaching awards from the professional optometric students at both the Southern College of Optometry and University of Houston. In 2004, his faculty peers awarded him the highest teaching honor bestowed in the College of Optometry, the Cora and J. Davis Armistead Faculty Teaching Award. He currently serves as the liaison for selected students from the Dublin Institute of Technology- Optometry who attend, as part of an exchange program with the University of Houston College of Optometry, an extern clinical practice rotation within the University Eye Institute of the University of Houston.