Steven N. Austad

Biography

Steven N. Austad has served as Distinguished Professor and holder of the Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and as a Fellow in Science Communication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Earlier in life Austad worked as a taxi driver and a lion trainer. Austad wrote To Err Is Human, To Admit It Is Not and Other Essays (2022).