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Show Alumni Notebook Brent C. James, MD, '78, MStat, ‘84 Dr. Brent James is the Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research and Vice President - Medical Research and Continuing Medical Education at Intermountain Health Care. For more than 20 years, he has championed the standardization of clinical care through data collection and analysis on a wide variety of treatment protocols and complex care processes. In addition to his duties at Intermountain Healthcare, Dr. James is adjunct professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He also holds a Visiting Lectureship in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and is a member of a number of national taskf orces and committees that examine health care quality and cost control, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and his most recent appointment by the Federal Comptroller to an advisory group on making American health care more accessible and affordable. He is a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. Through the Intermountain Advanced Training Program in Clinical Practice Improvement Dr. James has trained more than 5,000 senior physician, nursing, and administrative executives, drawn from around the world, in clinical management methods, with proven improvement results. Karen L. Miller, MD, HS ‘90 Dr. Miller came from Oklahoma to Utah in 1982 for an internship in general surgery at the University. She then served as a General Medical Officer in the Indian Health Service on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, practiced industrial medicine in San Diego, and returned to the University in 1986 for an obstetrics and gynecology residency. From 1990 to 2008 Dr. Miller was on faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Miller developed unique expertise in the gynecologic care of women over age 65. During a sabbatical she pursued additional clinical and research training in geriatric incontinence at Harvard Medical School. Working with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Geriatrics Society, she co-authored geriatrics educational guidelines, developed surgical best practices, and established research agendas in geriatric gynecology. She lectured internationally and helped write the definitive text, Incontinence, for two of the World Health Organization's International Consultations on Incontinence. Since 2008 Dr. Miller has been an active volunteer at the Maliheh Free Clinic and serves on its Board of Directors. She has assisted Juneau Biosciences's research into the genetics of endometriosis and traveled to Nepal with One Heart World-Wide, a nonprofit founded at the University of Utah in 1997. Dog training, Mandarin Chinese, German, piano, and skiing fill other hours. Having great respect for the quality and integrity of the University of Utah School of Medicine alumni, she is honored and pleased to serve on the Alumni Board. 33 |
