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Steven Miles '72 named 'Minnesotan of the Year'

By David Gonnerman '90
January 17, 2005

Minnesota Monthly magazine named Steven Miles '72 "Minnesotan of the Year" in its January 2005 issue. Miles, a professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, received the honor for his lifelong work that includes authoring the Do-Not-Resuscitate order, plus efforts on behalf of elderly patients and care of refugees around the world. Most recently, Miles authored "Abu Ghraib: its legacy for military medicine" in the British medical journal, The Lancet (vol. 364), an article that has been discussed extensively by U.S. and international media.

"This is the last true liberal arts career," Miles told Minnesota Monthly about his profession, "because it involves this incredibly human encounter along with all of science, from particle physics to the structure of DNA."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.