LEBANON — Following a national search, Anna Noel Miller, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopaedics at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Her new position began January 6.

Prior to joining Dartmouth Health, Miller served as the Jerome J Gilden, MD Distinguished Professor and vice chair of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She also held the role of inpatient medical director at Barnes Jewish Hospital and was an adjunct associate professor in the departments of biomedical engineering and orthopaedic surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

In addition to expertise in orthopaedics, Miller has extensive leadership experience through institutional committee service across the Wake Forest Baptist Health and Washington University School of Medicine health systems, as well as nationally through the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration’s Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network. She has also served on multiple educational and student advisory committees, as well as committee work focused on quality improvement, inpatient operations, clinical affairs and surgery.

Miller has held leadership positions at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine since 2011, serving in faculty positions in orthopaedic surgery and orthopaedic trauma, and as an associate for Wake Forest’s Women’s Health Center of Excellence for Research. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association and the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association. Her awards and recognitions include Exceptional Women in Medicine 2019-2023, Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine Award, 2023-2023, and Best Doctors in America, 2015-2023.

Miller has also served on the board of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, in additional to leading the orthopaedic section of the National Committee on Trauma. She is an examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is currently an Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellow.

Miller received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, followed by a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle.