Heidi B. Miller, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services

Heidi B. Miller, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Her work centers on upstream integration of public health, policy, and clinical care to holistically improve health outcomes for all Missourians. Focus areas include chronic disease, maternal health, medical education, substance use, state standing orders, public education, and emerging health issues. She continues to serve as a primary care doctor at Family Care Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center and certified patient-centered medical home in St. Louis.

Dr. Miller trained at Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and she completed her residency in Internal Medicine Primary Care at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Previously, Dr. Miller served as Medical Director of the St. Louis Integrated Health Network and the St. Louis Regional Health Commission, and as a health consultant for the Missouri Primary Care Association and the Missouri Medicaid Primary Care Health Home Initiative. She contributed to the strategic design and implementation of the statewide Medicaid Health Home Model in 2012, when Missouri became the first state in the nation to operationalize this model under ACA Section 2703. And she continues to practice in this model for her own primary care patients.

Honors include the Health Care Champion Award by Missouri Health Care for All, Presidential Award for Excellence in Family Medicine by MAFP, and Missouri Rural Health Champion Award. Dr. Miller has devoted her career to supporting policies that advance high-quality, preventive, integrated, team-based, cost effective, compassionate care for our most disenfranchised patients, while strengthening the public health of Missourians at scale.