About Mill Etienne

Mill Etienne is a neurologist and epileptologist with additional specialization in brain injury medicine. Mill is a Fellow in the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the American Epilepsy Society. He currently works for WMCHealth and serves as the Director of Medicine and Neurology at WMCHealth’s Good Samaritan Hospital. He is a professor of neurology and medicine at New York Medical College, where he is also Vice Chancellor and Associate Dean for Student Affairs. He is also a visiting scholar at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. Mill is a Captain in the United States Navy and serves as Executive Officer for the Navy Reserve Unit of the USNS Comfort. He served as President of the New York State Neurological Society from 2020-2022.

Mill was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and came to the United States at age five, settling in Spring Valley, NY. Mill did his undergraduate studies at Yale University. Throughout high school and college, Mill hosted a local television program that featured positive role models for youth in Rockland County. Upon graduating from Yale University, Mill moved on to New York Medical College, where he received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, served as an officer in the student senate, and served as an instructor and coordinator of the Science and Technology Enrichment program for underprivileged high school students. While in medical school, Mill also served as the National Speaker of the House of Delegates and National Parliamentarian for the Student National Medical Association. Mill completed his neurology residency, epilepsy fellowship, clinical neurophysiology, and neuroepidemiology fellowships at Columbia University's Neurological Institute of New York. While at Columbia, he also completed coursework for a Master’s in Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

After completing his fellowship training, Mill did a voluntary recall to active duty and was stationed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. There he was, the founding director of Walter Reed's comprehensive epilepsy center. In January 2010, Mill was deployed on the USNS Comfort as part of Operation Unified Response, which provided relief to the people of Haiti following a catastrophic earthquake. While on board the Comfort, Mill served as chief ethicist. Mill's work in Haiti led to cover-page articles in the Baltimore Sun and USA Today, as well as numerous additional articles in major newspapers around the world. Mill has over 100 publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, invited articles, and book chapters. Mill is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He was the 2025 recipient of the American Association of Medical Colleges’ Gold Humanism Award.