Professor
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Dr Steinberg obtained an MD and PhD in Neurosciences from Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his surgical residency in Neurological Surgery at Stanford under John Hanbery and spent one year studying cerebrovascular surgery with Charles Drake in London, Ontario.
In 1987 Dr. Steinberg joined the faculty at Stanford as Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery, being promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1993 and professor in 1997. He founded the Stanford Stroke Center in 1991 and is currently the Co-Director, and is Founder and Director of the Stanford Moyamoya Center. He served as Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford from 1995-2020 and holds the Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Endowed Chair of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences. Over 25 years Dr. Steinberg expanded the department from a faculty of 5 to more than 60 neurosurgeons and scientists.
Dr. Steinberg maintains a busy cerebrovascular surgery clinical practice. His clinical research focuses on developing innovative surgical, endovascular and radiosurgical approaches for treating patients with difficult intracranial aneurysms, complex vascular malformations and occlusive cerebrovascular disorders including moyamoya disease. He has also spearheaded early phase clinical trials of stem cell transplantation for chronic stroke and subacute spinal cord injury. Dr. Steinberg's lab investigates pathomechanisms of cerebral ischemia, develops neuroprotective agents, and employs novel approaches such as stem cell transplantation and optogenetic stimulation to enhance post-stroke functional recovery. Dr. Steinberg is heavily involved in teaching, serving as Neurosurgery Program Director from 1995-2004 and training more than 170 residents, clinical fellows, post-doctoral research fellows, graduate students and medical students. He has published over 450 peer reviewed articles, more than 135 book and video chapters, and edited 5 books related to clinical and basic aspects of cerebrovascular disease. He was awarded grants as Principal Investigator from the AANS NREF, American Heart Association, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and has held continuous NIH funding since 1987, including R01 and P01 Grants.
The many honors Dr. Steinberg has received include AANS Young Faculty Award; Santa Clara County Medical Association Outstanding Achievement in Medicine Award; President of the Western Neurosurgical Society; Congress of Neurological Surgeons Charles Drake Lecturer; Stanford University Medicine Alumni Association Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine; American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke Progress and Innovation Award; Society of Neurological Surgeons H. Richard Winn, M.D. Prize; Global Genes RARE Champion of Hope Honoree; Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award; AANS/CNS Joint Cerebrovascular Section, Ralph G. Dacey, Jr., M.D. Medal for Outstanding Cerebrovascular Research; California Association of Neurological Surgeons, Byron Cone Pevehouse Distinguished Service Award; and Western Neurosurgical Society Cloward Award for epochal innovations and/or pioneering applications . Dr. Steinberg has been Visiting Professor at numerous academic institutions internationally and presented than 700 invited talks at scientific meetings internationally. He has been a member of NIH NINDS Study Sections, the NIH NASCET Monitoring Committee, and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Neurosurgery, Cerebrovascular Diseases, the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Indian Journal of Neurosurgery and World Neurosurgery.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
2:58pm – 3:06pm PST
Disclosure(s): Peter Lazic, US: Royalty Recipient (Ongoing); SanBio: Consultant (Ongoing); Surgical Theatre: Consultant (Ongoing); Zeiss: Consultant (Ongoing)