Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences

The central focus of my research is understanding underlying mechanisms of skeletal muscle wasting during aging and age-related pathologies such as cancer cachexia.

Dr. Miley's research focuses on two areas within healthcare including patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and injury prevention. Dr Miley seeks to leverage large data to assess the psychometric properties of PROs in healthcare as well as understand how manual therapy interventions can be used to restore normal movement patterns within the healthy, active population.