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Hospice and Palliative Care Program Director, Geriatrics and Extended Care
West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System
Maura Farrell Miller PhD, APRN, GNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, ACHPN is a Board Certified Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse. She was the recipient of a New York State Regents Scholarship in Nursing in 1973 and obtained her AAS in Nursing from Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York, in 1975. She obtained her BSN from State University of New York College of Technology @ Utica/Rome in 1978. Her VA career began in 1981 as a staff nurse at the Miami VA. She was the
recipient of a Federal Traineeship to pursue graduate school and obtained her MSN from University of Miami School of Nursing with dual role preparation as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist in 1984. She began her doctoral studies in 1986 and was the recipient of a Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Beta Tau Chapter Research Award. Dr. Miller completed her doctoral dissertation research "Nursing Staff Responses to Physically Aggressive Behavior in Institutionalized Elderly: A Qualitative Study" and obtained her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing from University of Miami School of Nursing in August,1996. Dr. Miller serves as Director, Hospice and Palliative Care Program and Director, Therapeutic Gardening Program at the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Health Care System. She holds faculty appointments at University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Florida State University College of Nursing, and UM-JFK-VA-Hospice of Palm Beach County Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program.