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Joel L. Steinberg, M.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has served as a Staff Psychiatrist at UTHCPC since 1995.
 
Steinberg received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970 and his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in 1974. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago, where he pursued research training in biological psychiatry and served as Assistant Ward Chief of the Biological Psychiatry Research Unit from 1977-78.
 
Prior to joining the UT-Health Science Center at Houston faculty in August 1995, Steinberg was a faculty member at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (1986-95) and the LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport, LA (1979-86).
 
He is board-certified in general psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, National Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Functional Mapping of the Human Brain and the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry.