Dr. Miller, an early director of Esalen Institute, has been a member of the Board of the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Board of Medical Quality Assurance, the licensing board for the State of California. In 1972 she founded and directed the pioneering Institute for the Study of Humanistic Medicine. One of the first researchers to study the cross cultural dimensions and implications of beliefs of the Afterdeath, her books Finding Hope When a Child Dies and AfterDeath; How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life are published by Simon and Schuster.