Sanford Miller, Ph.D.

Dr. Sanford A. Miller is currently an Affiliate Professor in the Nutrition and Food Science Department and Senior Fellow at the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. He was named Professor and Dean Emeritus of The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) in December 2000. From 1987-2000, Dr. Miller was the Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine at the UTHSCSA. He is the former Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration. Previously, he was a Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Miller has served on many national and international government and professional society advisory committees, including the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Expert Committee on GRAS Substances, the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council of NIH, the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board and the Food Forum, the Joint WHO/FAO Expert Advisory Panel on Food Safety (Chairman), and the Steering Committees of several WHO/FAO panels. He also served as chair of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the Application of Risk Analysis to Food Standards Issues. He has also served as a member of the Food and Nutrition Board’s Committee on Dietary Reference Intakes and Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from M.I.T., and has received many other honors including The Conrad A. Elvehjem Award of the American Institute of Nutrition, The Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award from the Food Marketing Institute, The Sterling B. Hendricks Award (given before the American Chemical Society) established by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Babcock-Hart Award from the International Life Sciences Institute - Nutrition Foundation and the Institute of Food Technologists, and in June 1997, received the Atwater Memorial Lectureship Award from the USDA Agricultural Research Service and the Institute of Food Technologists. In 1998, Dr. Miller was elected a Fellow of The American Society for Nutritional Sciences. He was also a member of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council’s Committee to Ensure Safe Food from Production to Consumption, the Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health and the Environment of the National Research Council, and the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. He served as Chair of the Food Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration. In June 2000, he became the recipient of the Food and Drug Administration’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In February, 2002 he was named a National Associate of the National Academies. He is author or co-author of more than 200 original scientific publications. Dr. Miller received a B.S. in Chemistry from the City College of New York, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Physiology and Biochemistry.