Robert M. Miller, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington and holds adjunct faculty positions in Rehabilitation Medicine and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. He spent the first thirty-two years of his career in clinical practice for the Department of Veterans Affairs and was Chief of Audiology and Speech Pathology at VA Puget Sound Health Care System. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and holds board certification from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences. He received the 1997 Outstanding Clinical Achievement Award from the Washington Speech and Hearing Association and was honored with the Distinguished Career Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2005 he was awarded a Visiting Erskine Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His current areas of teaching are in neural basis for communication and swallowing and dysphagia.
