Dr. Martin Miner is the founder and former co-director of the Men’s Health Center at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He served as Chief of Family and Community Medicine for the Miriam Hospital, a teaching hospital of the Warren Alpert Medical School, from 2008 to 2018. The Men’s Health Center, under his leadership, was the first such center to open in the US. He is a clinical professor of family medicine and urology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence and has been charged with the development of a multidisciplinary Men’s Health Center within the Lifespan/Brown University system since 2008.
Dr. Miner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College with his AB in biology, and he received his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Upon receiving his MD, he completed his residency at Brown University. He practiced family medicine for 23 years, both at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and in private practice.
Dr. Miner presently holds memberships in the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Urological Association, and he is a fellow of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He is the former president of the American Society for Men’s Health and the current historian. He is the vice president of the Androgen Society, developed for the education of providers on the truths of testosterone therapy. Dr. Miner has served on the AUA Guideline Committees for erectile dysfunction, Peyronie’s disease, testosterone deficiency, and early screening for prostate cancer. He has served on the testosterone committees of the International Consultation on Sexual Medicine. He has presented both at the NIH and the White House on men’s health initiatives and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and spoken nationally and internationally in multiple venues. He has co-chaired the Princeton III and is a steering committee member and one of the lead authors of Princeton IV, constructing guidelines for the evaluation of erectile dysfunction, the use of PDE5 inhibitors, and cardiac health and prevention.
Dr. Miner was chosen as the Brown Teacher of the Year in 2003 and 2007 and was recognized by the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Award as achieving the most significant contribution to Men’s Health: 2012.
Publications
Nehra, A., Jackson, G., Miner, M., Billups, K. L., Burnett, A. L., Buvat, J., Carson, C. C., Cunningham, G. R., Ganz, P., Goldstein, I., Guay, A. T., Hackett, G., Kloner, R. A., Kostis, J., Montorsi, P., Ramsey, M., Rosen, R., Sadovsky, R., Seftel, A. D., Shabsigh, R., … Wu, F. C. (2012). The Princeton III Consensus recommendations for the management of erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 87(8), 766–778. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498391/
Morgentaler, A., Miner, M. M., Caliber, M., Guay, A. T., Khera, M., & Traish, A. M. (2015). Testosterone therapy and cardiovascular risk: advances and controversies. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 90(2), 224–251. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)00925-2/fulltext
Miner, M. M., Heidelbaugh, J., Paulos, M., Seftel, A. D., Jameson, J., & Kaplan, S. A. (2018). The Intersection of Medicine and Urology: An Emerging Paradigm of Sexual Function, Cardiometabolic Risk, Bone Health, and Men's Health Centers. The Medical clinics of North America, 102(2), 399–415. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025712517301888?via%3Dihub
Miner, M., Parish, S. J., Billups, K. L., Paulos, M., Sigman, M., & Blaha, M. J. (2019). Erectile Dysfunction and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease. Sexual medicine reviews, 7(3), 455–463. https://academic.oup.com/smr/article-abstract/7/3/455/6830878?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
Miner, M., Morgentaler, A., Khera, M., & Traish, A. M. (2018). The state of testosterone therapy since the FDA's 2015 labelling changes: Indications and cardiovascular risk. Clinical endocrinology, 89(1), 3–10. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cen.13589
Miner, M., Rosenberg, M. T., & Barkin, J. (2014). Erectile dysfunction in primary care: a focus on cardiometabolic risk evaluation and stratification for future cardiovascular events. The Canadian journal of urology, 21 Suppl 2, 25–38. https://www.canjurol.com/abstract.php?ArticleID=&version=1.0&PMID=24978630
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