Staff Bio
CAPT Jacqueline Miller, MD, FACS
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Dr. Miller provides leadership and direction for all scientific, policy, and programmatic issues related to four cancer prevention programs.
Role at CDC
CAPT Jacqueline Miller, MD, FACS, is the acting director of CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC). She is responsible for providing leadership and direction for all scientific, policy, and programmatic issues related to four foundational programs: the Colorectal Cancer Control Program, the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, and the National Program of Cancer Registries. She oversees a well-developed research agenda that includes the national Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network.
Previous experience
Dr. Miller was the medical director for CDC’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program since 2006 and recently served as the acting branch chief for DCPC’s Program Services Branch. She joined CDC as an EIS fellow in 2002.
Dr. Miller is a captain with the U.S. Public Health Service and a board-certified general surgeon. She completed her residency in general surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and then practiced general surgery for 8 years in Atlanta, with a special interest in breast cancer surgery. She continues to care for patients in an outpatient clinical setting.