Chris Miller, PhD

Chris Miller, PhD, is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Verida Sciences LLC, a consulting practice providing biostatistics, clinical trial methodology, and regulatory strategy support to life sciences organizations. Before founding Verida Sciences, Chris was Director of Regulatory Affairs at Pacira BioSciences, where he also served as interim Head of Biometrics. He completed his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. John Farrar, with dissertation research supported by the FDA focusing on the design and analysis of acute pain clinical trials. His doctoral work addressed methodological challenges in pain research, including establishing minimum clinically important differences in pain intensity, developing a more patient-centered efficacy endpoint for multi-dose clinical trials, and creating a reference-based multiple imputation approach to minimize bias introduced by rescue pain medication. Prior to his doctoral training, Chris served as Scientific Executive Consultant at 3D Communications for over ten years, where he led preparations for more than 30 FDA Advisory Committee meetings, with particular expertise in pain therapeutics. He has also served as a Biostatistics Subject Matter Expert for the Gates Foundation. Chris also holds a MS in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota.