Rodney Miles, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Rodney Miles, MD, PhD, is a cancer investigator at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI). He is also assistant medical director of the Hematopathology Laboratory and a clinical physician at ARUP Laboratories, an enterprise of the University of Utah. At the University of Utah School of Medicine, Miles is an assistant professor of pathology.

At HCI, Miles' research includes identifying novel prognostic biomarkers in hematopoietic malignancies such as leukemia and lymphoma, as well as determining which protein and genetic characteristics cause a disease to develop more aggressively. Miles' current projects include studying acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and Burkitt lymphoma in children.

Miles is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and clinical pathology, with a subspecialty certification in hematology. Miles completed a fellowship and a research fellowship in hematopathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prior to that, he completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency and was chief resident of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received a medical degree and PhD from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.