Wendy Trueblood Miller

Wendy Trueblood Miller serves as Professor, Executive Associate Dean for Research, and Sally Reahard Endowed Chair at Indiana University School of Nursing. She directs the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Disease and leads interdisciplinary initiatives bridging nursing, public health, informatics, law, and medicine to advance chronic disease self-management.

Her educational foundation includes:

• BSN from Indiana University
• MSN (Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist) from Indiana University
• Predoctoral T32 Fellowship at Indiana University
• PhD from Indiana University
• Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society

Dr. Trueblood Miller pioneers patient-centered epilepsy interventions through complex systems analysis of social media data. Her NIH-funded work leverages big data and AI to capture patient voices, identifying unmet needs for targeted tool development. This innovative approach transforms raw social media discourse into actionable clinical strategies for quality-of-life improvement.

Her accolades feature:

• Indiana University Bicentennial President's Medal for Research Excellence
• IUPUI Translational Scholar Award
• IUPUI Trailblazer Award
• Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
• Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society

Securing $3.084 million in external funding, she leads the NIH R01-funded myAURA project ($1.5M) for personalized epilepsy self-management and co-directs the NIH T32 fellowship program ($1.5M). Her UCB Pharma grant ($84,000) focuses on early epilepsy management interventions. As dissertation director and T32 co-director, she mentors emerging researchers in chronic condition self-management.

She founded and directs the Social Network Health Research Lab, where interdisciplinary teams analyze digital patient narratives to develop evidence-based tools for chronic disease populations.