Dr. Dora Anne Mills

Dr. Dora Anne Mills, MD, MPH, FAAP is the vice president for clinical affairs at the University of New England.  Dr. Mills is a Maine native who was raised in Farmington, graduated from Bowdoin College, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Pediatric Internship and Residency Program, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a board-certified pediatrician who practiced as a hospitalist in Los Angeles and in a pediatric practice in her hometown of Farmington.

Dr. Mills served as director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention for 15 years. She is widely recognized for her public health accomplishments, including reducing Maine’s rate of tobacco use, teen pregnancy and childhood obesity.

Dr. Mills’ work has been well recognized. Among her awards are: the 2007 American Medical Association’s Dr. Nathan Davis Award;  the 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award for her work addressing the 2009 H1N1 pandemic by distributing vaccines through Maine’s schools and the 2010 McCormack Award from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers.