About Karl
Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, HEC-C has been a nursing home, hospice, and home health agency medical director and chief medical officer in the San Diego area since 1995. He received his bachelor’s in biochemistry from Harvard. studied medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, then completed his family medicine residency at University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 1990. He has board certifications in family medicine and in hospice and palliative medicine, and is certified as a nursing home and hospice medical director in addition to having a certification as a healthcare ethics consultant. In addition to serving as president of the National POLST Collaborative, Dr. Steinberg is a past president of AMDA and CALTCM and past chair of the San Diego and California Coalitions for Compassionate Care. He serves on the National Advisory Board for the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care and is the recipient of the 2022 Doris Howell Award for Excellence in Palliative Care.