Dr. Neil Miller attended Harvard University, where he majored in biochemistry, graduating Magna cum Laude in 1967. He then matriculated to Johns Hopkins Medical School. After finishing medical school in 1971, he had an internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, followed by an ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute and a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, with Dr. William F. Hoyt.