She graduated in 1935 from Baltimore's Goucher College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry[1] and in 1939 from the Institute of the History of Medicine of Johns Hopkins University with an M.A.
[1] [2] At the Institute of the History of Medicine of Johns Hopkins University, Miller was an instructor from 1943 to 1948 and during those years began work on her doctoral dissertation.
The book gained esteem for her "immense industry and care"[4] and is "still considered a classic work in the history of medicine.
[citation needed] In 1979 she moved to Baltimore, but after about two years, she returned to Cleveland to be near her friends and familiar surroundings.
[1] For her book The Adoption of the Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France, Miller received the 1962 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM).