DEI Award to Honor Dr. Miquell Miller Announced

January 5, 2021

An award has been created to honor Dr. Miquell Miller, a General Surgery Chief resident. The Dr. Miquell Miller Award for Promoting Diversity and Inclusion will recognize an outstanding GME trainee who embodies the passion and commitment to expanding diversity and inclusion efforts as demonstrated by Dr. Miquell Miller during her time at Stanford. Dr. Miller was the inspiration and the leader in creating the Stanford GME Diversity Council.

"As Miquell is graduating this year, I wanted to cement her legacy at Stanford," said Department of Surgery Chair Dr. Mary Hawn. "To that end, I made a gift that will fund an annual award in her name to recognize Stanford trainees that embody her passion for diversity and inclusion."

The Fund shall be used to provide an annual award, recommended initially to be $1,000, and the recipient shall be determined by the Graduate Medical Education Diversity Committee with representation from the Department of Surgery Diversity Council. The first winner will be selected this spring.

"I am deeply honored as a person of color to have an award named after me. To leave a legacy of promoting diversity at the institution I trained at is a lifetime achievement," wrote Miller in a tweet shortly after the award was announced at the Department meeting on December 15, 2020.

Following graduation, Miller will go to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where she will do a fellowship in colorectal surgery.