Dr Mier graduated in medicine at Middlesex Hospital, London. After training posts in cardiology and rheumatology at the Middlesex Hospital, general medicine and neurology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and general medicine and endocrinology at Royal Free Hospital, Dr Mier became lecturer and registrar at Royal Brompton Hospital, carrying out research into respiratory muscle physiology, where she completed her MD thesis, and then later lecturer and senior medical registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. She was Consultant Physician at Royal Free London NHS Trust, Chase Farm Hospital from 1992 to 2015, where she was the Lead Clinician in Asthma and Allergies . She was a Member of the Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society for 3 years. She was awarded the Physicians as Educators Qualification from the Royal College of Physicians, and she is an Examiner for the PACES examination for the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Her interests include cough, breathlessness, chest infections, asthma, allergies and COPD, lung cancer, sleep disorders and fatigue.