Geoffrey Tobias Miller is the Associate Director of Research and Curriculum Development for the Divisions of Emergency Medical Skills Training and Disaster and Terrorism Preparedness at the Center for Research in Medical Education (CRME), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He joined the CRME five years ago and has since worked in the areas of patient simulation, interactive multimedia computer learning systems and emergency medical skills training.
Previously, Miller worked as a Paramedic Firefighter with Alachua County Fire Rescue before moving into Emergency Medical Services (EMS) education. During his time with Alachua County Fire Rescue, he oversaw projects on emergency services system utilization, hospital diversions and assisted in the development and implementation of E911 system upgrades, electronic patient tracking and reporting and medical care protocol refinements. Following his service in fire rescue, Miller served as Associate Professor of Emergency Medical Services programs at Santa Fe Community College, in Gainesville, Florida. There he led the schools participation in the pilot testing of the USDOT national standard curriculum for Paramedics as a field test site.
Miller is actively engaged in scholarly research and publication in EMS practice and education. He has coauthored several books including the Jones and Bartlett textbooks and instructor resource materials for “National Incident Management System: Principles and Practice”; “Arrhythmia Recognition the Art of Interpretation”; and a contributing chapter author for “Intermediate Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured”.
Miller is a member of numerous local, state and national EMS professional organizations and committees advising emergency services, law enforcement, public health and hospitals. He is also an active member of Florida and National educational organizations and has served twice as the President of the Florida Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators. In 2000, Miller was recognized as the Paramedic Instructor of the Year by the Florida Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators. In 2003, he was recognized as the EMS Educator of the Year by the State of Florida Department of Health Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. In 2005 he received the Mary Ann Talley award for emergency medical services education from the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians.
