Eydie Miller Ellis

Affiliation

Scheie Eye Institute/University of Pennsylvania

Biography

Eydie Miller-Ellis, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Director of the Glaucoma Service, Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs and Vice-Chair of Inclusion & Diversity at the Scheie Eye Institute/University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After completing an ophthalmology residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in glaucoma at Yale University. She then joined the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine where she remained for nine years. Dr. Miller-Ellis later moved to Richmond, VA where she was on the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia for two years, then relocated to Philadelphia in 2001 to join the faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Miller-Ellis has lectured nationally and internationally on glaucoma diagnosis and management, and on training the eye care team. Her research interests include risk factors for the development and progression of glaucoma, pharmacological and surgical treatment of glaucoma, and diagnostic techniques. She is very involved in resident education and is a three-time recipient of the Surgical Teaching Award at the Scheie Eye Institute. She has also received the Suzanne Veronneau Troutman Mentorship Award from Women in Ophthalmology, the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Department of Ophthalmology at the Yale School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Achievement Award in 2008 and the Senior Achievement Award in 2015. In 2014, Dr. Miller-Ellis was elected to the Academy of Master Clinicians and in 2019 received the FOCUS Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine, both at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been recognized by Best Doctors in America and named a Top Doctor in Philadelphia Magazine. She is Co-Director of the Rabb-Venable Excellence in Ophthalmology Program for the National Medical Association, Ophthalmology Section. This program is geared toward increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in ophthalmology residencies and academic ophthalmology and is supported by a grant from the National Eye Institute. Dr. Miller-Ellis is currently an investigator in the Primary Open-Angle African American Glaucoma Genetics Study, the goal of which is to identity genetic markers for glaucoma in persons of African descent. This study is supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute. Dr. Miller-Ellis is an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Glaucoma Society, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, National Medical Association, Greater Philadelphia Ophthalmic Society and Women in Ophthalmology. Dr. Miller-Ellis is also a member of the Accreditation and Certification Committee for the International Council of Ophthalmology, board member of the American Glaucoma Society, past board member of Women in Ophthalmology, and former Councilor to the American Academy of Ophthalmology representing the National Medical Association, Ophthalmology Section. She is Past President of the International Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (IJCAHPO).