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Dr. Steinman is an expert in maritime medicine
with particular emphasis on sea-survival, drowning and hypothermia. He
has served as the Director of Health and Safety for the U.S. Coast Guard
(equivalent to the Surgeon General), as medical advisor to the Coast
Guard's Chief of Operations, and as a rescue physician on numerous Coast
Guard search and rescue missions. He has an international reputation in
hypothermia and cold-water survival. He is widely published in the field
of environmental medicine, including a chapter on immersion hypothermia
in a leading textbook of emergency medicine. His research into human
cold-water immersion and hypothermia merited the prestigious Arnold D.
Tuttle Award from the Aerospace Medicine Association. The results from
his human hypothermia studies serve as the basis of current U.S. Coast
Guard cold-water survival time charts. Dr. Steinman is Board Certified
in Occupational Medicine; he is a Fellow of the American College of
Preventative Medicine. His Doctor of Medicine degree is from the
Stanford School of Medicine; his post-graduate medicine training was at
the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the University of Washington
School of Medicine. Dr. Steinman has experience in serving as an expert
witness in numerous cases involving sea-survival, drowning, and
hypothermia. |
