Rachel E. Miller, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology at Rush University Medical Center. She received her BS and Honors in Bioengineering from Penn State University and her PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT with Alan Grodzinsky, ScD. During her postdoc with Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD, she developed expertise in translational osteoarthritis mouse models and the study of osteoarthritis pain pathways. She has over ten years of experience studying musculoskeletal diseases and has published over 45 peer-reviewed articles. Currently, Miller’s laboratory is working to better understand biomechanical pathways of musculoskeletal pain in the context of osteoarthritis and other rheumatic diseases with the hope of informing better therapeutics. Her laboratory combines mouse models of osteoarthritis with state-of-the-art engineering and biophysical tools to attack this problem. Miller is a member of the American College of Rheumatology, the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Orthopaedic Research Society, and the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. She has received NIH, IASP, and ANRF funding to support her work. Miller is also the director of the NIH NIAMS P30 funded Chicago Center on Musculoskeletal Pain’s Behavioral Core (https://mskpain.center/).
