Ballroom Dancing Helps Improve Pharmacist’s Teaching Skills

Meanwhile, Dr. Miller says ballroom dancing has helped him become a better teacher by reminding him how hard it is to learn a new skill. Whether that skill involves medicine, pharmacy or dancing, he says he realizes how much practice all new skills require, especially for students in a clinical environment.

Now 61 years old, Dr. Miller says his 24-year marriage has also benefitted from dance sport. Besides keeping Joan and him active and healthy, he believes it has strengthened their emotional bond over the years.

“As people get older and get busy, sometimes you drift apart,” he says. “This is one activity that has always brought us together in a positive way.”

Carol Patton is a freelance writer based in Las Vegas.