J. Michael Millis is an internationally recognized surgeon in pediatric and adult liver transplantation and non transplant liver and biliary tract surgery. He is Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Global Surgery at University of Chicago. He is also the director of Clinical Leadership Development Fellowship and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is known for developing new techniques of liver surgery that improved outcomes following liver transplantation and non transplant liver and biliary tract surgery. He is a faculty member in the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and a Senior Scholar in the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence.
Millis has written 300 articles and has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet as well as other peer reviewed journals. He has lectured at many universities and medical centers around the world. His research has dealt with immunology, cellular therapy, policy and ethics.
Millis received the Hippocrates Award in 2012, and the Global Citizen Hero Award from Red Cross and the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.