Keith Miller, M.D., assistant professor of surgery in the Department of Surgery, has been named as the 2020 Faculty Inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society at the University of Louisville School of Medicne. He presented the keynote address at ceremony, which took place March 2. The mission of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) is to recognize individuals who are exemplars of humanistic patient care and who can serve as role models, mentors, and leaders in medicine. The society is a national cohort of physicians, fellows, residents and medical students who strive to inspire and cultivate humanism within themselves, their peers and their patients.

Keith Miller, MD embodies humanism in medicine. He treats everyone with a level of sincerity, respect and genuine kindness. It doesn’t matter whether you are the president of the hospital or the person cleaning the floors, Dr. Keith Miller knows the names of everyone who works there. He stops and talks to everyone he passes in the hallway to ask how they are doing and about their families.

Dr. Miller’s bedside manner is incredible. He sits and talks with patients and their families as long as needed to put their minds at ease and help them make an informed decisions that he genuinely feels is in their best interest, as well as the most up-to-date, relevant medical options. He has laughed with them; he has cried with them.

Dr. Miller is beloved by his colleagues throughout the hospital. He won our department’s most coveted resident teaching award last year, which is the pinnacle achievement for our teaching faculty. Dr. Miller is very involved in medical education, serving in many roles, including as an academic advisory dean and associate program director for the general surgery residency program. He mentors medical students, residents and fellows on a multitude of research projects. He teaches medical knowledge, judgment, and science. What he teaches that is more important, however, is humanism. Through word, deed, and example, Dr. Keith Miller is the consummate role model for physicians in the care of patients and their families.