Faculty Profile
Millicent W. Higgins, MB, BS, MD, DPH, FAACP (hc)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Internal Medicine
Millicent W. Higgins, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health
and Professor of Internal Medicine in the Medical School, retired from active faculty
status on August 31, 1985, after 25 years of service to the university. Born in Halifax,
England, on March 3, 1928, she earned the degree of M.B.B.S. at the University of
Durham Medical School in 1951, a D.P.H. Degree in 1956 and her M.D. degree in 1959.
Professor Higgins joined the Tecumseh study staff in 1959 as an examining physician with an appointment as research associate and was promoted to assistant professor in 1963. In 1967 she returned from the University of Pittsburgh as an associate professor of epidemiology and a research associate in the Center for Population Planning. She was promoted to professor in 1974. Throughout her career Professor Higgins has taught epidemiology, but her principal research activity was in Tecumseh were her interests extended to include studies of high blood pressure and breast cancer as well as the chronic respiratory diseases. She was appointed a professor in internal medicine in the Medical School in 1983.
Her first appointment as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health was in 1969. In 1971 Professor Higgins was named to the pulmonary diseases advisory committee of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, to the council in 1975, and to chairmanship of the clinical trials review committee in 1981.
Professor Higgins has been a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association, The Society for Epidemiological Research, The International Epidemiology Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Thoracic Society. She has served on the editorial boards of both Chest and the American Review of Respiratory Diseases. She is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a member of the American Epidemiological Society. In 1981 she was named an honorary fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Within the university Professor Higgins has been a member of the Biomedical Research Council, the Periodic Health Appraisal Advisory Committee, the School of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee, and the Preventive Medicine Residency Committee. For four years she was acting chairman of the Tecumseh Community Health Study Management Committee. She was elected President of the Women of the University Faculty for 1974-75.
In recognition of the great credit that she has brought to the university through her teaching, research and service, the Regents name Millicent W. Higgins Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine.
Professor Higgins joined the Tecumseh study staff in 1959 as an examining physician with an appointment as research associate and was promoted to assistant professor in 1963. In 1967 she returned from the University of Pittsburgh as an associate professor of epidemiology and a research associate in the Center for Population Planning. She was promoted to professor in 1974. Throughout her career Professor Higgins has taught epidemiology, but her principal research activity was in Tecumseh were her interests extended to include studies of high blood pressure and breast cancer as well as the chronic respiratory diseases. She was appointed a professor in internal medicine in the Medical School in 1983.
Her first appointment as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health was in 1969. In 1971 Professor Higgins was named to the pulmonary diseases advisory committee of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, to the council in 1975, and to chairmanship of the clinical trials review committee in 1981.
Professor Higgins has been a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association, The Society for Epidemiological Research, The International Epidemiology Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Thoracic Society. She has served on the editorial boards of both Chest and the American Review of Respiratory Diseases. She is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a member of the American Epidemiological Society. In 1981 she was named an honorary fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Within the university Professor Higgins has been a member of the Biomedical Research Council, the Periodic Health Appraisal Advisory Committee, the School of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee, and the Preventive Medicine Residency Committee. For four years she was acting chairman of the Tecumseh Community Health Study Management Committee. She was elected President of the Women of the University Faculty for 1974-75.
In recognition of the great credit that she has brought to the university through her teaching, research and service, the Regents name Millicent W. Higgins Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine.