Dr. Miles is an Instructor in the Section of Developmental Nutrition in the UAMS Department of Pediatrics and an ACNC faculty member. She investigates the impacts of maternal and child nutrition on neuroendocrine development and its broader impacts on brain development and nutritional programming in children. Dr. Miles recently was awarded a pilot grant from the UAMS Translational Research Institute that will support a project she developed as part of TRI’s Community Based Participatory Research Scholars Program, which involves collaborations between UAMS-affiliated researchers and community-based organizations to address health disparities and promote community health and well-being. Dr. Miles received her PhD from UAMS in 2020 and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Science at UAMS. She was a recipient of the 2021 ACRI/ABI Postgraduate Research Grant Award and a 2023 graduate of the two-year TRI Health Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program.