Irene Miller is a retired healthcare executive who has held positions as an hospital ![]() administrator, developer and administrator of the first federally qualified HMO in Michigan, director of mental health for Livingston County, Michigan . She was director of the psychiatric division at Detroit Osteopathic Hospital and director of treatment centers for drug addicted and dual diagnosed women and their children at the Detroit Medical Center.. For a year she served in Washington DC on an advisory committee for issues related to drug addiction in women and children. For two years she was a public school teacher in Israel. In retirement Irene is a docent and speaker for the Detroit Institute
of Arts, a courts mediator , and serves on the Board of Directors of the American
Jewish Committee, the oldest civil rights organization in the US. Since the University of Michigan-Dearborn published
her book, Into No Man's Land: A Historical Memoir, in November of 2012, Irene
has been in demand as a speaker at many large events in various States, and in Canada, at professional conferences, military groups, at NASA Space Center ,labor unions, churches, schools, universities, adult education centers,at a
campus of adjudicated teens, and many other organizations and social clubs. All listed under "events". The book has been used by many book clubs and book
discussion groups. Into No Man's Land: A Historical Memoir, is being used in many schools by the history and English classes. Irene was
written up in many newspapers in States she has spoken, interviewed by radio and for TV programs. The 30 minutes TV program" MI Healthy Mind" with Irene, originally shown in November 2018, is being repeated periodically. The PBS documentary "Irene; Child of the Holocaust" premiered December 2016 Irene lived in a number of countries, traveled extensively, and speaks 6 languages. She is a positive, energetic woman with a joy of living and love to share. |