When Ladies First providers, as well as health care practitioners around the nation, come across breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic and treatment issues they cannot answer, Dr. Jacqueline W. Miller provides answers through her forum, Ask Dr. Miller. 

Dr. Miller is a board-certified general surgeon and a Commander with the U.S. Public Health Service. She did her undergraduate education at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She has practiced General Surgery for eight years in Atlanta with a special interest in breast cancer. Since then she has remained at the CDC as Medical Officer and is currently the Medical Director for CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

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Reprinted below are questions and responses from her forum. Should you wish to email her directly, her address is jmiller5@cdc.gov

Dr. Miller has authored or co-authored over 30 publications and mentors fellows training in epidemiology. A recent article authored by Dr. Miller is "Mammography use from 2000 to 2006: state-level trends with corresponding breast cancer incidence rates" (2009).

Dr. Miller is featured in the Get Your Mammogram podcast. Listen to this podcast: Long version (4:17) or Short version (0:59).