The New Director of the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Georgia

Toni Miles is the new director of the Institute of Gerontology at the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. She was a tenured professor at the University of Louisville with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the Kent School of Social Work. Previously she was a professor of family medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

Dr. Miles is a graduate of Northwestern University. She completed a combined Ph.D./M.D. program at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

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