About

Adam Bryant Miller, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Dr. Miller joined CHAAMP in 2024. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He completed his predoctoral internship at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Miller completed a National Research Service Award funded postdoctoral research fellowship at UNC in the Department of Psychology. He completed his undergraduate studies at UNC.

Dr. Miller’s program of research focuses on identifying psychological and neurobiological mechanisms linking early childhood adversity exposure with risk for suicide across the child and adolescent developmental trajectory. To investigate this overarching question, Dr. Miller leverages mobile technology, functional MRI methodologies, and intensive and traditional longitudinal designs. His work is based in developmental psychopathology principals by acknowledging that pathways to suicide risk dynamically change over the course of childhood and adolescent development. His work has been continuously funded by the National Institute Health. Ultimately, the goal of Dr. Miller’s work is to identify pathways to suicide risk and identify ways to intervene with novel technological approaches.

Prior to UNC and CHAAMP, Dr. Miller was a Research Clinical Psychologist at RTI International and completed a K01 Career Development Award at UNC.