Bruce L. Miller, MD

Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Miller is Professor of Neurology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) where he is a Head of Section for Cognitive Neurology & Dementia, and holds the A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair.  He is also the Clinical Director of the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF, which is funded through the State of California, the Hillblom Foundation and the National Institute of Aging.  The UCSF Dementia Center links comprehensive patient evaluations to basic research in neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging, and genetics.  Dr. Miller’s goal is the delivery of model care to all patients who enter the clinical and research programs at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, which sees about 400 new patients a year and will follow many of these patients for the rest of their lives.

Dr. Miller is a behavioral neurologist with a special interest in brain and behavior relationships and has focused his work in the area of dementia. He has many years of experience directing pharmaceutical trials for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and currently directs the UCSF treatment trial for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with quinacrine in conjunction with Drs. Stanley Prusiner and Michael Geschwind.  At UCSF, Dr. Miller also directs an NIH-funded program project on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) called Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions. His work with FTD has emphasized both the behavioral and emotional deficits that characterize these patients, while simultaneously noting the visual creativity that can emerge in the setting of FTD. The recognition that dementia patients have many strengths is a guiding principle of the Memory and Aging Center.

Dr. Miller is the author of the book entitled ”The Human Frontal Lobes.” His work has been published in many journals including Neurology, Archives of Neurology, Journal of International Neuropsychological Society, Brain and Lancet.  For nearly 20 yrs, Dr. Miller has been the scientific director for The John Douglas French Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease, a philanthropic organization.  He is involved in patient care at the UCSF clinics and hospital and teaches in the medical school.  Dr. Miller runs the Behavioral Neurology Fellowship at UCSF.  He is Editor for the journal Neurocase and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association and the Behavioral Neurology Society.