Rate My Professor Wendy Miller

Wendy Miller, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, FAAN, FAES, is Professor and Sally Reahard Endowed Chair in the Indiana University School of Nursing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She serves as Executive Associate Dean for Research, Director of the PhD Program, Director of the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness, and Director of the Social Network Health Research Lab. As faculty in Nursing, Miller has built an interdisciplinary research program centered on chronic disease self-management, with a particular emphasis on improving daily self-management and quality of life for adults living with epilepsy. Her work integrates big data analytics from social media, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to capture patient perspectives and develop targeted interventions.

Miller developed the Life Changes in Epilepsy Scale, a tool utilized by healthcare providers locally, nationally, and internationally to assess epilepsy-related life changes. She created myAURA, a web-based intervention employing AI and machine learning to support epilepsy self-management, which proved valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her contributions include collaborations to update American Epilepsy Society guidelines on discussions of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy and research on epilepsy self-management during pandemics, HIV self-management amid COVID-19, and hybrid concept analyses of self-management support. Key publications encompass 'Chronic Disease Self-Management: A Hybrid Concept Analysis' (2015), 'Epilepsy self-management during a pandemic: Experiences of people with epilepsy' (2020), 'The Impact of COVID-19 on HIV Self-Management, Affective Symptoms, and Stress in People Living with HIV' (2021), and 'Hybrid Concept Analysis of Self-Management Support: School Nurses Supporting Students with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures' (2021). She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society, and received the Mary and John Barron Quality of Life Investigator Research Fund Award in 2019. Through her leadership and research translation efforts, Miller influences clinical practice, policy, and interdisciplinary health outcomes.