Yasmin Miller was appointed as the new Manager of the BC Surgical Oncology Network, joining the BC Cancer Agency at the end of June 2006. Previously, she was the Manager of the Women's Health Research Institute at BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre, where she was involved with developing and implementing a strategic research plan for BC Women’s. Creating a research centre in women's health was a key goal of the research strategy, and last year the Women’s Health Research Institute was established.

Originally from Montreal, Yasmin lived for ten years in Toronto before moving to Vancouver in 2002. In Toronto, Yasmin was the Program Officer for The Richard Ivey Foundation, where she assessed grant applications for funding in the areas of the environment, health, social services, education, arts and culture. In her previous positions, Yasmin was the Manager of Research Awards with the National Cancer Institute of Canada, where she was responsible for several research and fellowship programs, and she was also a Grants Officer at the University of Toronto, where she managed research proposals and grants in the social sciences, humanities and medicine. Yasmin has several years of experience conducting and managing health-related research projects. As a Research Officer with the Community Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Toronto, she was involved with several public health studies leading to publications, and she also worked as a patient interviewer for studies in the Psychosocial Oncology Program at the Princess Margaret Hospital-Ontario Cancer Institute.