Retired Health Care Executive and Community Volunteer Now Enjoys Digital Photography

Photos by Dick Miles

Richard H. Miles (Dick) is an avid traveler and photographer who likes to photograph street scenes in international cities as well as macro images of flowers in black and white. He became interested in photography in the late 1980s with the advent of digital photography.

Dick is the current board chair of the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in Grand Center, board chair for the Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and a member of the hospital’s board of directors, board chair of the Oasis Institute in St. Louis, and past board chair of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. He retired after more than 30 years with Valitas Health Services where he was board chair and president and CEO of its principal subsidiary, Correctional Medical Services, which had revenues of almost one billion dollars from the delivery of total health care services to state prison systems and large urban jails.