Hans Steiner, M.D. and Zakee Matthews, M.D.Hans Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria and received his Doctor medicinae universalis (M.D.) from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1972. He completed his residency in adult psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center and his child and adolescent psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Currently, Dr. Steiner is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child Psychiatry and Human Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine.
He is a Lifetime 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).
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 the years 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998,1999, 2004 and 2005 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 consulted with the state of California on many issues regarding the diagnosis and treatment of offenders and the optimization of psychiatric services to offender populations, and he recently served on the Governor’s Sex Offender Task Force (CASOM) in California.
2) Psychopathologies associated with trauma and victimization and resilience. Abuse and child victimization are important precursors of disorders related to aggression. Dr. Steiner has developed extensive data regarding the survivors of extreme adversity. A related interest is his research and consultancy in the mental health dimensions of sport and elite athletes.
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, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
He has authored over 500 published articles, abstracts, reviews, books and book chapters and is editor of three volumes on Treating Preschool Children, Treating School Age Children, and Treating Adolescents, respectively. He edited the Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach. He is one of three editors of a German-American Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is the editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Developmental Psychiatry and author of the forthcoming book Eating Disorders (Fast Facts). He serves on the editorial boards of over 70 scientific journals and publishing houses and is very active in public service.
He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia and regularly provides keynote addresses at professional meetings.