HANS STEINER, M.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

 

 

Dr. Steiner is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In the Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development he is the Director of Education.

Dr. Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria and received his Doctor medicinae universalis (Dr. med. univ.) from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1972. He completed his residency in adult Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, his child and adolescent psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is particularly interested in increasing diversity among mental health clinicians and researchers. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM). He is an invited member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). In 2002, he was named Pfizer Visiting Professor to the Department of Psychiatry at Brown University and Visiting Scholar to Loyola University’s Department of Pediatrics by the American Psychosomatic Society.

He has won numerous national awards for his research, teaching and mentorship of young physicians and mental health researchers. In 1996, he received the Goldberger Award of the American Medical Association for his work in Eating Disorders. In 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Mentor Award of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 1993, he won the Dlin/Fisher Award of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine for achievements in clinical research.

Dr. Steiner is considered an expert in three areas:

1) Aggression and its relationship to psychopathology. He is regarded as a national and international expert on the overlap between psychopathology, aggression and antisocial behavior. He has extensive experience in consulting to juvenile justice. A related interest is his research and consultancy in the mental health dimensions of sport and elite athletes.

2) Psychopathologies associated with trauma and victimization. Abuse and child victimization are important precursors of disorders related to aggression.

3) Pediatric and psychiatric comorbidity (i.e. the overlap between pediatric and psychiatric diseases). He has conducted extensive research in juvenile eating disorders, somatoform disorders, the psychiatric sequelae of pediatric disease and intensive treatment systems for pediatric psychiatric comorbidity.

Dr. Steiner's research is based on developmental approaches to psychopathology which emphasize the conjoint study of normative and non-normative phenomena, and the complex interaction of biological, psychological and social variables in the etiology, pathogenesis, diagosis and treatment of mental disorders.

He has authored over 300 published articles, abstracts and book chapters. He is the editor of three volumes on treating preschool children, school age children, and adolescents, respectively. He is currently writing three textbooks on clinical assessment from a developmental perspective, child and adolescent psychiatry and developmental approaches to treatment. He serves on the editorial boards of over 40 scientific journals and publishing houses, and is very active in public service.

He has lectured widely in the US, Europe and Australia and regularly provides keynote addresses at professional meetings.