Steven Miller – Practitioner Fellow

 

Dr Steve Miller is a medical doctor (UQ) with a Phd in neuroscience and psychiatry (UQ). Clinically, he works in occupational medicine and is a medical advisor to both WorkSafe and the TAC. Steve is currently a Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative Practitioner Fellow based at Monash University's Department of Psychological Medicine and the Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre. There he is assessing the therapeutic potential of caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) in a variety of persistent pain conditions. Steve also works in visual neuroscience including investigating basic mechanisms of perceptual rivalry and the slowing of rivalry in bipolar disorder. At APRC, Steve is working with Trung Ngo and Paul Fitzgerald on a project examining the therapeutic potential of CVS in mania and depression. This project emerged from Steve's PhD thesis and also examines the novel neurophysiological model of bipolar disorder that Steve proposed with Jack Pettigrew.