ABOUT DR MILLER
Dr Steven Miller is a clinician and scientist with more than twenty years of experience in Occupational Medicine in Melbourne. His work strongly focuses on providing safe and sustainable return to work for injured individuals, and on the assessment and management of persistent pain, particularly in the context of workers compensation and accident compensation schemes. |
Dr Miller has worked in various occupational medicine roles, consulting to injured workers at the coalface, major employers (e.g. Ambulance Victoria, Victoria Police, Department of Education and Training Victoria), and a wide range of companies in hospitality, manufacturing, packaging, transport and other industrial sectors.
Dr Miller has been a medical advisor on the clinical panels of both WorkSafe Victoria and the Victorian Transport Accident Commission for more than 16 years and has reviewed and advised on thousands of cases of injured persons within these compensation schemes. This role, and his extensive clinical occupational medicine experience, has enabled him to establish the Occupational Pain Medicine model of care and to integrate the various elements of this model into the consulting service.
In addition to a medical degree from the University of Queensland (1993), Dr Miller has a Masters degree in Occupational and Environmental Health from Monash University (2009) and a PhD in Neuroscience and Psychiatry from the University of Queensland (2003). Dr Miller is currently engaged in international-level clinical neuroscience research on function and dysfunction of the brain, persistent pain, and various psychiatric and neurological disorders. He is a Senior Research Fellow (adjunct) in the Physiology Department at Monash University, where he heads the Perceptual and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory based at Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.
Dr Miller is currently conducting research on non-invasive neuromodulation in the management of persistent pain and mood disorders as well as on mood disorder biomarkers and basic visual neuroscience. This clinical research and neuroscience background provides an ideal context within which to integrate the latest findings from Pain Neuroscience into the Occupational Pain Medicine model of care and consulting service.
Dr Miller publishes research and commentary articles in international medical and scientific journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Current Biology, Psychological Medicine, and Bipolar Disorders. He also regularly conducts peer review of articles submitted to such journals and others such as Journal of Neuroscience and Cerebral Cortex. Dr Miller is also series editor of the international book series, Advances in Consciousness Research (John Benjamins Publishing).
At Monash University, Dr Miller supervises graduate research students at Honours, Masters and PhD levels as well as post-doctoral scientists. His research has been funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services, Defence Health Foundation, Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative, Brain and Behavior Foundation (USA), and Monash Institute of Medical Engineering. He has acquired ~$1M in competitive research funding.
Dr Miller’s research website can be found at: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/miller-lab
Drawing from his research expertise in neuromodulation, Dr Miller has a particular clinical interest in the emerging applications of both invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques in the management of persistent pain. In his medical advisor role on clinical panels at WorkSafe and TAC, he regularly assesses requests for spinal cord stimulation and other neuromodulation procedures from Victorian pain physicians, musculoskeletal physicians, and neurosurgeons, with a focus on assessing the suitability of injured individuals for such procedures. Dr Miller also has a particular interest in standardised outcome measure collection for neuromodulation trials. With clinical panel colleagues, he has developed a minimal set of standardised outcome measures for neuromodulation trials, which has now been widely adopted by Victorian neuromodulation providers.
Dr Miller is a member of the Australian Pain Society (APS), the Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM), the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS), the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (NSANZ), the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), and the Australasian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders (ASBDD). He regularly attends and/or presents his research at annual conferences for these and other societies.
Dr Miller has been a medical advisor on the clinical panels of both WorkSafe Victoria and the Victorian Transport Accident Commission for more than 16 years and has reviewed and advised on thousands of cases of injured persons within these compensation schemes. This role, and his extensive clinical occupational medicine experience, has enabled him to establish the Occupational Pain Medicine model of care and to integrate the various elements of this model into the consulting service.
In addition to a medical degree from the University of Queensland (1993), Dr Miller has a Masters degree in Occupational and Environmental Health from Monash University (2009) and a PhD in Neuroscience and Psychiatry from the University of Queensland (2003). Dr Miller is currently engaged in international-level clinical neuroscience research on function and dysfunction of the brain, persistent pain, and various psychiatric and neurological disorders. He is a Senior Research Fellow (adjunct) in the Physiology Department at Monash University, where he heads the Perceptual and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory based at Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.
Dr Miller is currently conducting research on non-invasive neuromodulation in the management of persistent pain and mood disorders as well as on mood disorder biomarkers and basic visual neuroscience. This clinical research and neuroscience background provides an ideal context within which to integrate the latest findings from Pain Neuroscience into the Occupational Pain Medicine model of care and consulting service.
Dr Miller publishes research and commentary articles in international medical and scientific journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Current Biology, Psychological Medicine, and Bipolar Disorders. He also regularly conducts peer review of articles submitted to such journals and others such as Journal of Neuroscience and Cerebral Cortex. Dr Miller is also series editor of the international book series, Advances in Consciousness Research (John Benjamins Publishing).
At Monash University, Dr Miller supervises graduate research students at Honours, Masters and PhD levels as well as post-doctoral scientists. His research has been funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services, Defence Health Foundation, Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative, Brain and Behavior Foundation (USA), and Monash Institute of Medical Engineering. He has acquired ~$1M in competitive research funding.
Dr Miller’s research website can be found at: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/miller-lab
Drawing from his research expertise in neuromodulation, Dr Miller has a particular clinical interest in the emerging applications of both invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques in the management of persistent pain. In his medical advisor role on clinical panels at WorkSafe and TAC, he regularly assesses requests for spinal cord stimulation and other neuromodulation procedures from Victorian pain physicians, musculoskeletal physicians, and neurosurgeons, with a focus on assessing the suitability of injured individuals for such procedures. Dr Miller also has a particular interest in standardised outcome measure collection for neuromodulation trials. With clinical panel colleagues, he has developed a minimal set of standardised outcome measures for neuromodulation trials, which has now been widely adopted by Victorian neuromodulation providers.
Dr Miller is a member of the Australian Pain Society (APS), the Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM), the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS), the Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (NSANZ), the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), and the Australasian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders (ASBDD). He regularly attends and/or presents his research at annual conferences for these and other societies.