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Michael Steinman, MD
 Michael Steinman, MD
San Francisco VA Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
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Mike Steinman graduated from Brown University in 1991 and completed his medical school training at Harvard Medical School in 1997. He joined the primary care internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and after graduation in 2000 proceeded directly to the San Francisco VA Medical Center for a two-year fellowship in the VA National Quality Scholars Program. He then stayed to complete a clinical geriatrics fellowship in the same division, after which he spent a sabbatical year in Jerusalem. As of June 2004, he returned to the SF VA to begin on the clinician-researcher faculty in the division of geriatrics, supported a Career Development Award from the VA. He currently is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Geriatrics) at UCSF and a staff physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Mike's major research interests involve measuring and improving the quality of pharmaceutical care for elders. His earlier work in prescribing quality has included studies on national patterns of broad-spectrum antibiotic use and diagnostic and treatment decisions for elders with acute bronchitis, as well as work on the accuracy of self-perceptions of guideline adherence. He also has an interest in pharmaceutical industry marketing, including the ethics of gift-giving and the effect of industry promotion on physician prescribing behavior, a topic about which he has lectured extensively.
Mike's HSR&D career development award supports his development of new frameworks for measuring and improving prescribing quality. He is also currently working on several projects that evaluate patterns of guideline adherence and appropriateness in elders with multiple chronic medical conditions, in addition to other work evaluating patterns of medication use in elders and the merits and problems of existing metrics of prescribing quality. His mentors are C. Seth Landefeld, MD and Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH, both nationally recognized researchers in health services research.
Mike also enjoys his clinical work in geriatrics and general internal medicine in the outpatient clinics and inpatient service of the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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