About

Alexandra Smith Miller, M.D., MSEd, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She serves as the Associate Director for Medical Student Education in Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry and is an Attending Psychiatrist at Penn Behavioral Health Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. Dr. Miller is also the Course Co-Director for Doctoring 1 at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her clinical expertise focuses on providing care for individuals with experiences of psychosis. She has contributed to research on early psychosis intervention and neuroblastoma, with publications related to these areas. Dr. Miller's educational roles include overseeing medical student education and participating in residency didactic curriculum development, emphasizing her commitment to medical education and psychiatric clinical practice.

Research topics

• Geography
• Demography
• Economics
• Demographic economics
• Business

Selected publications

• The Natural Capital Accounting Opportunity: Let's Really Do the Numbers

  BioScience · 2018-10-16 · 29 citations

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  The nation's economic accounts provide objective, regular, and standardized information routinely relied on by public and private decision-makers. But they are incomplete. The United States and many other nations currently do not account for the natural capital—such as the wildlife, forests, grasslands, soils, and water bodies—on which all other economic activity rests. By creating formal natural capital accounts (NCA) and ecosystem goods and service (EGSA) accounts, governments and businesses could better understand the past, peer into the future, innovate, conserve, and plan for environmental shocks. They would standardize, regularly repeat, and aggregate diverse natural resource, environmental, and social and economic data and could thereby play a significant role in advancing the science of coupled biophysical and social systems.

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• Frito-Lay, Inc

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009-01-01 · 4 citations

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• Review: Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image.—Temps, narration et image fixe

  French Studies · 2003-07-01

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  1University of Leicester Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image.—Temps, narration et image fixe Mireille Ribière Jan Baetens Amsterdam — Atlanta Rodopi 2001 226 Paperback€57.00; $53.00

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• Estimating Interregional Migration in the United States from Sample Data: A Procedural Note

  Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History · 1994-01-01 · 3 citations

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  author examines newly available machine-readable samples from historical U.S. censuses. The issue at hand is the use of data newly provided by the samples to improve our knowledge of the redistribution of the native-born population; the Public Use Samples (PUS) for 1900...and 1910....The procedures for developing the estimates are outlined: first an evaluation of data from the two samples in the context of the use to which they are put here; second the need to weight and the method used in weighting sample frequencies to produce comparable aggregates for the two dates; and third how estimates of net migrants are derived from these aggregates. A fourth section presents a brief analysis of net intercensal migration between 1900 and 1910 as indicated by the estimates. conclusion suggests other general areas in which the procedure may be helpful.... (EXCERPT)

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• Succession of Diatom Communities on Sand Grains

  Journal of Ecology · 1987-09-01 · 89 citations

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  (1) Transition from a flat two-dimensional community to an erect three-dimensional community has been described primarily for diatom colonization on rigid, artificial substrata. To determine if the same community transition occurs on natural, unstable substrata we examined colonization on sand grains over 33 days using both light and scanning electron microscopy. (2) Epipsammic diatoms were significantly associated with crevices on sand grains and stalked diatoms, a minor component of the community, were randomly distributed. (3) Diatom communities collected at different times over the period were structurally very similar to each other (similarity index SIMI =0 80). (4) Diatom colonization did not develop from a flat, two-dimensional community to an erect three-dimensional community. (5) The epipsammon represents a specialized diatom community that seems well adapted for existence in a variable environment. Disturbance probably plays an important role in structuring the community and as a result keeps it in a 'pioneer' state.

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• A Study of Teachers' Views of Death Education in the Mattoon, Illinois School District

  Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy · 1986-01-01

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  Teaching children how to cope with death experiences so that they will not ever suffer from prolonged grief is the responsibility shared by all of society. Along with church leaders and parents, teachers, too, must help teach death education. The purpose of this paper was to explore how well equipped teachers are with adequate training and resources to teach death education in the schools. Also, to explore how concerned teachers are with this area of education. This study was done through the use of a three-page questionnaire which was developed by the writer. The questionnaire was given to all teachers in the elementary, junior high and senior high schools in the Mattoon, Illinois school district. The results of the questionnaire were tabulated to show absolute frequencies and relative frequencies of each item. Pearson correlation coefficients were performed to show relationships in teachers' attitudes with their personal knowledge of death. Coefficients of determination were given where significant correlations were found. The results of this study indicate that these teachers report that they feel inadequate in their training and resources for dealing with death education. However, teachers in this study said they were open and positive about teaching death education in the classroom. The implications are that colleges could provide programs in training teachers to deal with death education. Schools could provide inservice and workshops to better train teachers to teach death education.

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• Work, Jobs, and Occupations: A Critical Review of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1983-03-01 · 54 citations

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  Various editions of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles have served as the Employment Service's basic tool for matching workers and jobs. The Dictionary of Occupational Titles has also played an important role in establishing skill and training requirements and developing Employment Service testing batteries for specific occupations. However, the role of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles has been called into question as a result of planned changes in the operation of the Employment Service. A plan to automate the operations of Employment Service offices using a descriptive system of occupational keywords rather than occupational titles has led to a claim that a dictionary of occupational titles and the occupational research program that produces it are outmoded. Since the automated keyword system does not rely explicitly on defined occupational titles, it is claimed that the new system would reduce costs by eliminating the need for a research program to supply the occupational definitions. In light of these considerations, the present volume evaluates the future need for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

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• Work, Jobs, and Occupations: A Critical Review of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

  Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 1982-01-01 · 185 citations

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• Changing Work Life Patterns: A Twenty-five Year Review

  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 1978-01-01 · 12 citations

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  Over the past 25 years there have been substantial changes in the proportion of population engaged in market work and in the age and sex composition of the work force. The nonworker-worker ratio has fluctuated widely, primarily as a reflection of the dramatic fluctuations in birth rates, while the long-term trends of increasing participation by women and declining years of work by men have accelerated. Recent developments indicate that this acceleration of long-term trends has taken on certain new characteristics: young women appear to be returning to the labor market much more quickly after the birth of children, with a consequent reduction of time out of the work force; and the customary retirement age of men is falling. As a result, work life patterns are becoming increasingly similar for men and women and much higher proportions of the population in the age range 20-54 are working than has been true in the past. In a broader context, it is suggested that the rapid decline in average annual worker hours characteristic of the first part of the twentieth century may be transformed into a decline in average worker years in the last part.

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• Interstate migrants in the United States: Some social-economic differences by type of move

  Demography · 1977-02-01 · 62 citations

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  U.S. interstate migrants (over a five-year period) are separated into three groups: (a) those leaving state of birth; (b) those returning to state of birth; and (c) those outside state of birth at the beginning of the period and moving on to a third state by the end. Evidence is presented suggesting that the third group is particularly selective of persons with high social and economic status. The findings are linked to certain hypotheses about the changing role and function of migration in a highly developed country where the transition from a rural society based on agriculture has essentially been completed.

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Frequent coauthors

• York Broadway

  American Association For The Advancement of Science

  64 shared

• South

  United States Naval Academy

  49 shared

• Frederick C. Mosher

  49 shared

• Carla Reeves

  University of Huddersfield

  49 shared

• Nebraska-A Brecken- Ridge

  United States Naval Academy

  49 shared

• John C. Beckett

  49 shared

• Julian Fahy

  49 shared

• S. Ulmer

  Kantonsspital Aarau

  49 shared

Labs

• Alexandra Smith Miller LabPI

Education

• B.A., English

  Harvard College

  2007

• Other

  University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

  2011

• Other, Premedical

  University of Pennsylvania School of Liberal and Professional Studies

  2015

• M.D.

  Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

  2020