Steve Miller, MD, PhD
Research and Clinical Interests
I am interested in the use of molecular methods for diagnosis and monitoring of clinical infectious disease, particularly in immunocompromised and transplant patients. Projects include:
- A collaborative translational effort to implement microarray diagnostics for identification and susceptibility of bacterial infections in septic patients.
- Clinical evaluation and implementation of quantitative PCR measurements of viral illness (EBV, BK, JC, CMV) and multiplex identification of these agents in disease or symptom-specific panels.
- Development and validation of an assay to diagnose and monitor T. cruzi-infected heart transplant candidates.
Selected Publications
- Miller SA, Binder EM, Blackman MJ, Carruthers VB, Kim K. (2001) A conserved subtilisin-like protein TgSUB1 in microneme organelles of Toxoplasma gondii. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276(48): 45341-8.
- Miller S. (2002) The REMEDY Program: Recovery and donation of unused surgical supplies to developing countries. Einstein Quarterly Journal of Biology and Medicine 19(3): 121-4.
- Miller SA, Rosario CL, Rojas E, Scorza JV. (2003) Intestinal parasitic infection and associated symptoms in children attending day care centres in Trujillo, Venezuela. Tropical Medicine and International Health 8(4): 342-7.
- Miller SA. (2003) Subtilisin-like proteases TgSUB1 and TgSUB2 in Toxoplasma gondii: Involvement in specialized secretory organelles used for host cell invasion. Doctoral dissertation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
- Miller SA, Thathy V, Ajioka JW, Blackman MJ, Kim K. (2003) TgSUB2 is a Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry organelle processing proteinase. Molecular Microbiology 49(4):883-94.
Selected Awards
- College of American Pathologists Foundation Scholar
- Assistant Professor and Director, UCSF Clinical Laboratories at Mount Zion
- Laboratory Medicine
- Infectious Disease/Microbial Pathogenesis
Specialty Area
- Molecular Microbiology
Contact Information
- Steve.Miller@
ucsfmedctr.org - Phone: 415-353-9630
- Pager: 415-443-1277
- Fax: 415-885-7522
- 1600 Divisadero St., Room B-232
- San Francisco, CA 94115
Hospital Affiliation(s)
- Mt. Zion