Stacy Miller, Chief Administrative Officer, Departments of Neurology & Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis.

Stacy has been in her role with UC Davis Neurology for 14 years, but added on Neurological Surgery in 2018. She also held concurrent interim roles in a half dozen departments and centers at the UCD School of Medicine and was the interim Assistant Dean for the College of Engineering for six months in 2015. Prior to her work at UC Davis, Stacy held several administrative management jobs at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University before her culminating role there as the Associate Director for Administration & Finance.

Currently at UC Davis, the combined size of both departments is 14 neurosurgeons, 38 neurologists, 36 basic research faculty, 42 residents & fellows and approximately 110 staff. Stacy’s favorite part of the job is that no two days are the same, meaning she rarely knows what to expect and is never bored. Whether it’s trouble-shooting a WiFi problem with EEG data uploads, making sure one of the researchers has appropriate mouse surgery space or writing a proposal for a surgical robot, she ALWAYS enjoys working with her amazing administrative team of professionals who are great at getting things done and even better at having a good time doing it.

Stacy and her partner are currently both working from home, managing distance learning for their two school aged kids and in-home childcare for the youngest. Her house has never seemed smaller or louder!! While this has made work-life balance challenging, it has given Stacy a lot of empathy for her employees and colleagues who are struggling with some of the same issues (some as single parents, others with lesser means for hiring help). Stacy has found that she has a much larger well of grace than she had in the past.

From Stacy: I really enjoy working out early in the morning (5am) with a group of women that I met at a gym five years ago.  When our gym shut down in March, we started virtual workouts for several months and over the summer ventured outside for some physically distanced workouts together.  We range in age from 30-73, and have a true cross section of political views, races, religions, education and economics.  But, we celebrate each other’s successes, encourage each other when things aren’t going well and build each other up to start each day and it is a habit and group that I feel lucky to have. 

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