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Gary K Steinberg, MD, PhD
Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst
Professor of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences
Founder and Co-Director, Stanford Stroke Center
Former Chair (1995-2020), Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford University
Gary K. Steinberg was raised in
Westchester County, New York and
graduated summa cum laude with Honors
in Biology from Yale University. Before
attending medical school, he studied
classical trumpet on a scholarship at the
Institute for Advanced Musical Studies
in Montreux, Switzerland. He graduated
with an M.D. and Ph.D. in Neurosciences
in 1980 from Stanford University,where
he also completed his neurosurgical
residency under Dr. John Hanbery. His dedi-
cation to the understanding and treatment
of cerebrovascular disorders began during his training, where he re-
ceived an NIH NINDS Award to investigate aneurysmal subarachnoid
hemorrhage and when he spent a formative year studying cerebrovas-
cular surgery with Dr. Charles Drake in London, Ontario.
Dr. Steinberg joined the faculty at Stanford in 1987 and served as Chair
of the Department of Neurosurgery from 1995-2020. He founded the
Stanford Stroke Center and the Stanford Moyamoya Center, where he
remains as co-director. He continues his busy clinical practice specializ-
ing in cerebrovascular surgery and leads a large clinical research team
focused on developing innovative approaches for treating patients with
complex cerebrovascular disorders. He has trained scores of residents,
with students and fellows coming from all over the world to be trained
and mentored by him. His lab has also spearheaded novel neuroprotec-
tive and neurorestorative techniques, which has led to some of the
world’s first clinical trials of stem cell transplantation for chronic stroke
and subacute spinal cord injury. His research has been continuously
funded by the NIH since 1987 and he holds research grants from numer-
ous other bodies, generating research work that has resulted in over 500
publications.
Dr. Steinberg has been a recipient of many honors, including the Con-
gress of Neurological Surgeons Charles Drake Lecturership, the Ameri-
can Stroke Association Innovation Award, Society of Neurological Sur-
geons H. Richard Winn Prize, the Smithsonian American Ingenuity
Award, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of
Neurological Surgeons Ralph G. Dacey Medal for Outstanding Cer-
ebrovascular Research and the California Association of Neuro-
logical Surgeons, Byron Cone Pevehouse Distinguished Service
Award. One of his proudest honors was to serve as President of
the Western Neurosurgical Society in 2015 (Kaua’i), with his wife, San-
dra Garritano as first lady of the Western. He is equally proud of his son
Jeff, who is a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon and his daughter Liz, who
is a child psychologist.

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