J. Michael Millis Explained

James Michael Millis
Nationality:American
Occupation:Surgeon, academic
Awards:Hippocrates Award
Global Citizen Hero Award from Red Cross
Education:B.A. in Chemistry and Political Science
M.D.
Alma Mater:University of Tennessee, College of Medicine
Emory University

James Michael Millis is an American academic and surgeon specializing in pediatric and adult liver transplantation.[1] He is Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Global Surgery at University of Chicago.[2] He is also the director of Clinical Leadership Development Fellowship and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is known for developing new techniques of liver surgery that improved outcomes following liver transplantation and non transplant liver and biliary tract surgery.[3]

Education

Millis graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry and Political Science from Emory University in 1981. Later, he completed his M.D. from University of Tennessee in 1985 and joined the University of California at Los Angeles as a surgery intern. In 1987, he also started research in liver transplantation at UCLA, becoming the Dumont Transplant Fellow at the institute in 1992. At the same time, he was an instructor in surgery at UCLA. In 2014, he received an MBA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[4]

Career

Millis left UCLA in 1994 to join the University of Chicago as assistant professor in Department of Surgery, becoming associate professor in 1997 and professor in 2002.[3]

In 1994, he also joined the University of Chicago Hospitals. In 1997, he was appointed the director of Pediatric Liver Transplant Program and Liver Transplant Program at University of Chicago Hospitals.[1] He stepped down from the position of director at the Liver Transplant Program in 2006, being appointed again as the director of the program in 2014. From 2000 to 2016, he was the Chief of Section of Transplant Surgery at University of Chicago.[5] In 2008, he founded the Transplant Center at University of Chicago Medical Center and led the center until 2016, stepping down to focus on his international efforts of improving surgical care and ethics, establishing the Global Surgery Program at the University of Chicago.[6]

Millis has done significant work in the area of global surgery, hosting dozens of physicians and scientists from China and other countries around the world desiring experience in the United States. He developed the Clinical Leadership Development Fellowship program at University of Chicago that provides people from other countries the training to lead clinical health care enterprises.[7] He has hosted dozens of Chinese students, residents and faculty at the University of Chicago to provide them with first-hand knowledge of the delivery of surgical care at leading academic health centers. He has also facilitated visits by US residents, fellows and faculty to Chinese centers to broaden their exposure and experience. In 2015, he was appointed the Vice Chair of Global Surgery at the University of Chicago.[8] [9]

In 2015, he became a senior faculty scholar at Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence[10] and in 2017 a faculty member at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.[11]

Millis serves on the editorial board of many scientific journals in the field of transplantation and surgery including World Journal of Gastroenterology and Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.[12] He is also the co-editor of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition.[13]

Research

Millis has also conducted researching exploring how cellular technology can be applied to patient care. He has organized many national and international conferences on the topics ranging from violence in healthcare to surgical research.[9]

Healthy policy and ethics

A significant part of Millis's research has focused on policy and ethics in the field of health; and implementing ethical standards as the field of surgery becomes global. In 2006, he, with support of the China Medical Board, worked with Jiefu Huang, then the vice minister of health of China, to establish regulations governing the practice of transplantation in China and improve the outcomes and ethical standards of the transplantationin China. They initiated reforms that paved the way for banning transplant tourism and buying and selling of organs. They further established the requirements for transplant procedures including surgeon experience and ICU requirements.[1]

Millis and Huang initiated a pilot program in China that allowed for voluntary organ donation. Upon the success of the program, it was expanded nationally. Later, in January 2018, the use of organs from executed donors was also banned in China. Their work changed the entire policy of transplantation in China. Millis also organized several conferences in China on the issues of ethics in healthcare in international settings.[14] [15]

In 2016, he helped the Peking Union Medical College Hospital in reforming their GME into a competency and milestone-based curriculum from their apprentice based system.[16]

Recognition

Millis received the Hippocrates Award in 2012, and the Global Citizen Hero Award from Red Cross.[17]

Selected publications

Books

Book chapters

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meet the local doctor who helped end China's corrupt organ-transplant system. 9 December 2015. Chicago Business.
  2. Web site: J. Michael Millis, MD. University of Chicago Medicine.
  3. Web site: Trial begins for first artificial liver device using human cells. University of Chicago Medicine.
  4. Web site: J. Michael Millis. University of Chicago.
  5. Web site: Global Surgery Program.
  6. News: Liver Transplants That Do Their Job, Then Fade Away. The New York Times. 22 February 2010 . Grady . Denise .
  7. Web site: China-US Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation. University of Chicago.
  8. Web site: Dr. Michael Millis Takes on Corrupt Chinese Organ Transplant System. 2019-07-05. 2019-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190705071705/https://surgery-sites.uchicago.edu/news/dr-michael-millis-takes-corrupt-chinese-organ-transplant-system. dead.
  9. Web site: 曝光：邪恶的肝胆外科及论文写作国际研讨会. University of Chicago. 2019-07-05. 2019-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190705071656/http://www.baoguangxiee.org/p/blog-page_95.html. dead.
  10. Web site: Senior Faculty Scholars - Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence. Bucksbaum Institute. 2019-07-05. 2019-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190705073145/https://bucksbauminstitute.uchicago.edu/senior-faculty-scholars/2/. dead.
  11. Web site: Our Faculty and Staff. The MacLean Center.
  12. Web site: Editorial Board. Springer.
  13. Web site: Editorial Team. Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition.
  14. News: China used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending.. .
  15. Web site: 全球生物人工肝领军人物J•Michael•Millis教授与公司领导一行莅临光谷生物城考察交流. Wuhan Tong Stem Medical Polytron Technologies.
  16. Web site: Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic Surgery and Manuscript Writing Symposium. University of Chicago.
  17. Web site: UChicago Medicine 2017 Department of Surgery Annual Report. The Constant.

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