David Kimball Miller, medical school's first full-time clinical professor

A family memorial service will be held Nov. 23 in Hawaii for David Kimball Miller, UB professor emeritus and former chief of medicine at E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, which later became the Erie County Medical Center. Miller, 93, died in his sleep Oct. 25 at the home of his son, David Rush Miller, in Hilo, Hawaii, where he had lived since 1993.

A resident of Buffalo from 1938 to 1974, he was a native of Bloomington, Ill., and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University. Miller graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1929 and beginning in 1937, was the first full-time professor of a clinical department in the University of Buffalo Medical School.

Known for his skill as a medical diagnostician and for his commitment to patient care and clinical instruction in medicine, he was honored for his contributions to medicine in 1984 on his 80th birthday with the dedication of the David K. Miller Wing of the Erie County Medical Center. He retired to San Francisco in 1974.

The family requests that contributions in his memory be sent to the Clara March Trust Fund for Medical Education, 1620 Statler Towers, Buffalo, N.Y. 14202.