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 largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.
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.