June 27, 2001
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Director of Sports Medicine Dennis Miller has been inducted into the National Athletic Trainers' Association Hall of Fame as a member of the 2001 class. The induction was at the NATA 2001 Awards Luncheon during the 2001 annual meeting and clinical symposium in Los Angeles on June 22. Miller was one of six certified athletic trainers inducted.
"Denny certainly deserves such recognition in light of his many years of distinguished service to the profession," said Purdue Athletics Director Morgan Burke. "We at Purdue are proud that he is one of us-a Boilermaker. He has been an educator and mentor for so many and thousands of athletes have benefited from his care and assistance."
Miller was named director of sports medicine for the Purdue athletic training program in July of 2000 after a 24-year stint as head athletic trainer. Before that, he served four years as an assistant athletic trainer. Miller also is director of the Physical Therapy Department of the Purdue Student Health Center.
A certified member of the NATA, Miller joined the Purdue ranks in 1973 following completion of his postgraduate physical therapy curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania, which followed tours as assistant athletic trainer at West Point (while on active duty) and Syracuse.
In June of 1996 Miller completed four years as president of the 20,000-member National Athletic Trainers Association. He also is a former president of the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association. He currently is chair of an NATA task force to develop and recommend standards for health care for intercollegiate athletes.
A native of Hawarden, Iowa, Miller earned his B.A. degree in physical education from Iowa State in 1968 and later received an M.S. degree in physical education from Syracuse in 1972.
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