Monday, November 6, 2023

Miller to present Frazer/Leigh Memorial Lecture

Richard S. Miller, M.D.
Richard S. Miller, M.D., FACS, chair of the Department of Surgery and chief of surgery at JPS Health Network, will present two CME-accredited lectures Nov. 9-10.

Both lectures are open to the public and are made possible through the Emmett B. Frazer, M.D., FACS, and Milton M. Leigh, M.D., FACS, Memorial Endowments at the Department of Surgery at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine.

Miller will present the first lecture, “Developing an Emergency General Surgery Quality Improvement Program in a Safety Net Hospital,” on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the Strada Patient Care Conference Center and via Zoom at https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/91925296690.

He will give the second lecture, “Pre-operative Surgical Optimization: Focus on the Geriatric and Frail Patient Population,” on Friday, Nov. 10, at 7 a.m. in the second-floor conference room at University Hospital and via Zoom at https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/91925296690.

Miller also serves as senior executive, surgery, at the Acclaim Physician Group, and professor of surgery at TCU/UNTHSC School of Medicine in Fort Worth, Texas.

The annual memorial lectureship is given to honor the legacies of Dr. Emmett B. Frazer and Dr. Milton M. Leigh as leaders in clinical service and graduate surgical education in the Mobile community.

For more information on the lectures, contact the Department of Surgery at 251-445-8230.