page_title: Joan Miller
section_title: Selected awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Joan Miller / Selected awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Joan W. Miller speaking at the 2014 António Champalimaud Vision Award ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, 10 September 2014.
context_page_description: Joan Whitten Miller is a Canadian-American ophthalmologist and scientist who has made notable contributions to the treatment and understanding of eye disorders. She is credited for developing photodynamic therapy with verteporfin, the first pharmacologic therapy for retinal disease. She also co-discovered the role of vascular endothelial growth factor in eye disease and demonstrated the therapeutic potential of VEGF inhibitors, forming the scientific basis of anti-VEGF therapy for age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and related conditions.
context_section_description: 1999: Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award / Young Investigator Award, Macula Society
  2002: Jules Gonin Lecturer of the Retina Research Foundation, Club Jules Gonin
  2002: Alcon Research Institute Award
  2006:  ARVO/Pfizer Ophthalmics Translational Research Award, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  2007: Distinguished Old Girl Award (DOGA), Bishop Strachan School
  2008: American Ophthalmological Society
  2009: J. Donald Gass Medal for Outstanding Contributions in the Study of Macular Diseases, Macula Society
  2010: Joseph B. Martin Dean's Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty, Harvard Medical School
  2011: Paul Henkind Memorial Lecture, Macula Society
  2012: Pinnacle Award for Achievement in the Professions, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
  2012: LXIX Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture, American Academy of Ophthalmology
  2012: Cless Best of the Best Award, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine
  2013: Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis
  2014: António Champalimaud Vision Award from the Champalimaud Foundation
  2015: Gold Fellow, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  2015: Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology from Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  2015: National Academy of Medicine
caption: Joan W. Miller speaking at the 2014 António Champalimaud Vision Award ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, 10 September 2014.
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