Ronald Miller ’54

Ron died March 9, 2016, of complications from a fall.

Born in New York City, he majored in biology at Princeton. He was a member of Quadrangle Club, the Undergraduate Council, and many other committees. He entered Columbia Medical School, and after graduation, took up residency training with Harvard Medical Service at Boston City Hospital and at Washington University in St. Louis. He subsequently completed fellowship training in nephrology at Boston University. Ron spent four years on the faculty at Boston University and then four years at the University of California, Irvine, where he started the Department of Nephrology and established dialysis units for his renal patients.

As attending nephrologist, Ron faced many end-of-life issues for his critically ill patients, so he took a yearlong fellowship as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, in the department of medical ethics. On his return to the University of California, Irvine, he developed a program in medical ethics and spent the next 17 years teaching residents and hospital and clinical staff in that field.

Ron was a caring and passionate man. He was devoted to his family, friends, patients, and students, as well as to his philosophy of life. The class extends condolences to his wife, Irene; daughters Cynthia, Laura Jane, and Carla Irene; and sons David and William.