Steve Stiles

Steve is a journalist and news editor for theheart.org|Medscape Cardiology. He has been reporting on cardiovascular medicine since the 1980s, when IV streptokinase was considered cutting-edge medicine, and joined the heartwire news team in 2004. Steve is the 2008 recipient of the Howard L. Lewis Career Achievement Award for health and science reporting from the American Heart Association, and was on the heartwire team that won the Online Journalism Award in the category of Specialty Site Journalism from the Online News Association in 2010. He is also proud to have been with theheart.org|Medscape Cardiology in 2013 when it won the Gold Medal for Best Website from the Association of Healthcare Publication Editors. Steve is a graduate of liberal-arts bastion Kenyon College and has an MS in science communication from Boston University. He can be contacted at or .