Virginia M. Miller

Virginia M. Miller is an American comparative physiologist who is a professor emerita and former Director of the Women's Health Research Center at the Mayo Clinic. Her research considered how sex hormones such as estrogen impact cardiovascular health.

Early life and education
Miller earned her bachelor's degree in education at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. She earned a Master of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota. She moved to the University of Missouri for graduate studies, where she specialized in physiology.

Research and career
Miller dedicated her career to better understanding women's health. Miller studied sex hormones and their role in cardiovascular health. She served as Principal Investigator of the Mayo Clinic Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health scholar's program.

Awards and honors

 * Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health
 * Women’s Day Magazine Red Dress Award
 * Paul M. Vanhoutte Named Lecture in Vascular Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
 * Governing council for the American Physiological Society
 * President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences