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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 received
an NIH NINDS Award to investigate aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
and when he spent a formative year studying cerebrovascular 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 specializing in cerebro-
vascular surgery and leads a large clinical research team focused on de-
veloping innovative approaches for treating patients with complex cerebro-
vascular 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 neuroprotective 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 numerous other bodies, generating research
work that has resulted in over 500 publications.
Dr. Steinberg has been a recipient of many honors, including the Congress
of Neurological Surgeons Charles Drake Lecturership, the American Stroke
Association Innovation Award, Society of Neurological Surgeons H. Rich-
ard Winn Prize, the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, the American
Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Ralph G. Dacey Medal for Outstanding Cerebrovascular Research
and the California Association of Neurological Surgeons, Byron
Cone Pevehouse Distinguished Service Award. One of his proud-
est honors was to serve as President of the Western Neurosurgical
Society in 2015 (Kaua’i), with his wife, Sandra 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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