Karl 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. He serves as chief medical officer for Shea Family Health, an El Cajon-based nursing home and post-acute care chain, medical director of two other skilled nursing facilities, Kindred Village Square and Life Care Center of Vista, and medical director of Hospice by the Sea in Solana Beach.

Dr. Steinberg has been a nursing home medical director and hospice medical director since 1995 and is probably best known for taking his dogs on rounds with him almost every day. He is the editor-in-chief of Caring for the Ages, on AMDA's BOD and vice chair of their Public Policy Committee, and chair-elect of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of CA. Dr. Steinberg was also CALTCM President from 2007-2009.