Assistant Dean of Clinical Integration Named at Renaissance School of Medicine

Dr. Joshua Miller to lead entity designed to improve quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery

STONY BROOK, NY, January 8, 2019 – Joshua Miller, MD, has been named Assistant Dean of Clinical Integration at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. In this capacity, Dr. Miller will serve as the physician leader for Stony Brook’s Clinically Integrated Network (CIN), which supports structured collaboration among physicians and hospital through a program designed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare.
Appointed by Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Senior Vice President of the Health Sciences and Dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine, Dr. Miller will report to Margaret McGovern, MD, Dean for Clinical Affairs in this position, effective January 1, 2019.
The CIN helps to accelerate improvements in healthcare delivery and will foster new mechanisms for aligning physicians in the community with Stony Brook Medicine and its programs. Dr. Miller will lead the CIN infrastructure and design, including patient care management, improving clinical documentation and coding in the ambulatory and physician office environment. He will also oversee strategies to engage primary care physicians and specialists within the region to enhance the care of Stony Brook Medicine patients, as well as ensure quality and reduce post-acute-care utilization.
Dr. Miller joined Stony Brook in 2013 as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine. In 2016 he was named Medical Director of Diabetes Care for Stony Brook Medicine. In this role, Dr. Miller transformed and expanded the Diabetes Care program at Stony Brook, achieving outcomes within the top 10 percent of academic medical centers nation-wide and improving care for people with diabetes throughout the health system. Dr. Miller also serves as project lead for the DSRIP/Suffolk Care Collaborative Diabetes, Wellness & Self-Management Program and President of the American Diabetes Association Long Island Community Leadership Board.
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