Kevin M. Miller, MD, is the Kolokotrones Chair in Ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and a professor of clinical ophthalmology at UCLA. He is chief of the Cataract and Refractive Surgery Division, director of the Anterior Segment Diagnostic Laboratory, and a member of the Stein Eye Institute. He serves on the executive committee of the ASCRS and will be its president in 2026-2027.

He received his undergraduate training in electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University GWC Whiting School of Engineering. Working for the US Naval Research Laboratory, he built a facility for testing the Cesium atomic clocks used in Global Positioning System satellites under space flight conditions. He received his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This was followed by an internship in Baltimore at the Franklin Square Hospital Center and a research fellowship in Ophthalmic Optics at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He did his residency training at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute and joined the full-time faculty at UCLA in 1991. His clinical practice is devoted to cataract surgery, laser refractive surgery, and the rehabilitation of eyes with complex anterior segment surgical problems.

Dr. Miller is the recipient of four endowed UCLA cataract research funds including the Paul Vicari fund, Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga fund, Albert Sarnoff fund, and Amalia Simon Roth fund. He received the Honor, Senior Honor, and Lifetime Achievement Awards of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and two Secretariat awards. He delivered the Charles D. Kelman lecture at the 2019 annual AAO meeting. In addition to the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), he is also a member of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), the International Society of Refractive Surgeons (ISRS), and the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC).