Robert D. Miller, JD
Robert D. Miller, JD, MSHyg, is a graduate of Iowa State University, the Yale Law School, and the University of Pittsburgh Health Law Training Program. He is an Associate General Counsel of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority (UWHCA). He began his legal career as the in-house legal counsel to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He then was in private practice with the firm of Shutts & Bowen in West Palm Beach and Miami, Florida, until he joined the staff of UWHCA. While in Florida, he was a counsel of record in two of the cases establishing the scope of the right to discontinue medical treatment, Corbett v. D’Alessandro, 487 So. 2d 368 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986), and In re Guardianship of Browning, 568 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 1990). He has taught health care law at the University of Iowa and University of Miami and has lectured on health law issues at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Miller was co-author of Human Experimentation and the Law (1976), a co-author of the fourth edition of Nursing and the Law (1984), author of the fourth through sixth editions of Problems in Hospital Law (1983, 1986, 1990), and author of the seventh edition and co-author of the eight edition that were renamed Problems in Health Care Law (1996, 2000). He lectures and contributes to other publications on health law topics.
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