ISMA Past President Lowell Steen, MD, of Highland, died Oct. 5 at age 95. Dr. Steen, an internal medicine physician who practiced for 46 years in Northwest Indiana, “was widely admired for his tremendous devotion to the practice of medicine, compassion for his patients and dedicated to teaching and mentoring young physicians and nurses,” his obituary in the “Times of Northwest Indiana” said.

In addition to serving as ISMA president in 1970, Dr. Steen chaired the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association, was president of the Indiana Society of Internal Medicine and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He was named both a Kentucky Colonel and a Sagamore of the Wabash by governors of Kentucky and Indiana, respectively.

 “The Times of Northwest Indiana” also recapped Dr. Steen’s contributions to medicine in Indiana in this article.