Stanford Center on Adolescence

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; In 2003 he was Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2004, he was Visiting Professor at Howard University, Washington, DC. In 2005 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Ulm, Germany; In 2006 he will be Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Maryland and keynote speaker for the biannual World Congress of the IACAPAP in Melbourne, Australia.

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, 1998,1999, 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 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.

He has authored over 450 published articles, abstracts, reviews, books and book chapters. He is the editor of three volumes on Treating Preschool Children, Treating School Age Children, and Treating Adolescents, respectively. He is the editor of 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. He is the editor of the forthcoming Stanford University School of Medicine Handbook of Developmental Psychiatry. He serves on the editorial boards of over 50 scientific journals and publishing houses. He is very active in public service.

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

Publications

• Steiner H, Cauffman E, Duxbury E. (1999) Personality Traits in Juvenile Delinquents: Relation to Criminal Behavior and Recidivism. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 38 (3): 256-262.

• Steiner H., Stone L. (1999) Violence and Related Psychopathology Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 38 (3): 232-234.

• Steiner H. (1999) Developmental Approaches to Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. Clinical Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 4, 309-324.