Karl E. Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC
Dr. Karl Steinberg is an experienced clinician with over 20 years in practice in San Diego County. He is a geriatrician and board-certified family physician with a subspecialty certification in hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Steinberg got his undergraduate degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard in 1980, then taught high school in New York City for three years. He attended medical school at The Ohio State University, graduating in 1987, then completed his family medicine residency at UCSD (San Diego) in 1990.  Dr. Steinberg is the Immediate Past-President of AMDA: The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine; Chief Medical Officer, Mariner Health Care; & Past Chair, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, and the Editor-in-Chief of Caring for the Ages. Dr. Steinberg has been a hospice and nursing home medical director since 1995 and is probably best known for taking his dogs on rounds with him on most days.