Hans Steiner

Hans Steiner (born 1946, Vienna) is Professor (Emeritus, Active) 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 (such as Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder,Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder); Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia nervosa); Trauma Related Psychopathology (Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Resilience); the overlap between psychiatric and other medical disorders (Somatoform Disorders, Medical Trauma); Personality development across the life span, and Sports Psychology.

Steiner studied Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna and was awarded the Doctor medicinae universalis (Dr. med. univ.; title equivalent to M.D.) 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 (1973) to complete his General Psychiatry residency training at the State University of New York (SUNY), Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York (1973–1976). He then went on to fellowship training in child & adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1976–1978), where he also was the Chief Resident in the years 1977/78.

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