Hans Steiner


Hans Steiner is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Human Development at Stanford University, School of Medicine. In 2010 he was awarded Lifetime Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association.
He continues teaching and research and maintains a selective private practice in Palo Alto.
He advocates the developmental psychopathology and developmental psychiatry perspective within psychiatry. He works in the subfields of Aggression, its normal and abnormal development; Disruptive behavior disorders ; Eating disorders ; Trauma-related sychopathology ; the overlap between psychiatric and other medical disorders ; personality development across the life span, and sports psychology.

Education

Steiner studied Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna and was awarded the Doctor medicinae universalis in 1972. After completing a rotating internship in Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics/Gynecology at the Rudolfstiftung in Vienna, he came to the United States to complete his General Psychiatry residency training at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York. He then went on to fellowship training in child & adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he also was the Chief Resident in the years 1977/78.

Honors and awards

After becoming Professor Emeritus, Dr. Steiner returned to creative writing, producing short stories, novel, and poems. He had been active in these endeavors up to his years in medical school, writing in German at the time. His current writings are in German and in English.
He organized a group of physicians at Stanford who also write creatively, named the Pegasus Physicians. The group meets monthly and discusses works in progress or in the planning stage.
"Diagnosing the human condition: Stanford medical students add art, music and literature to studies" article:
The Arts, Humanities & Medicine Program allows Stanford School of Medicine students to explore their artistic passions in conjunction with their medical studies.