Dr. Miller is responsible for the development of the Master of Science concentration in Strength & Conditioning at GW, and currently serves as program director.   Since coming to GW in 2005, Dr. Miller’s professional and research interests have varied widely.  These interests have included studies of exercise adherence in commercial health clubs; caloric expenditure during interactive video gaming in school children; obesity treatment in retired NFL players, and most recently, the role of resistance training in preventing and treating overweight/obesity in women.  He is the former Director of the Weight Management and Human Performance Lab at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus.  Dr. Miller has won GW’s Excellence in Teaching Award 5 times. 

As a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Tactical Strength and Conditioning Facilitator, Professor Miller brings a tremendous amount of field experience to his research into muscle physiology. His early focus on the influence of strength training on athletic performance evolved into an interest in how human beings respond to long-term space travel.  To learn more, Dr. Miller has used animal models to investigate the deleterious effects of microgravity on neuromuscular and cardiovascular physiology, and how those effects can be countered by exercise.  His final work with NASA included an experiment that flew on the ill-fated Columbia shuttle in 2003.