Dr. Devorah Steinecker

Dr. Steinecker is an Osteopathic Physician and Neurologist with extensive training in neurology and psychiatry, surgery, cranial osteopathy, immunology, neurobiology, neuro-pharmacology, biomolecular nutrition, neurophysiology and electrophysiology and developmental pediatrics.  Dr. Steinecker is also a fully ordained minister with extensive academic, religious and spiritual training in Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.  Over the past fifty-eight years she has actively participated within the fundamental contexts of these religious practices. 

While still an undergraduate honor's student in anthropology at the City University of New York, Dr. Steinecker was recognized for her achievements by being selected as the only undergraduate in the country to attend an advanced four-month course in Paleo-pathology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, where she studied with three generations of eminent scholars and conducted research on the social implications of dental patterns.

Also prior to graduation, Dr. Steinecker was further acknowledged by an invitation to be a summer student at the prestigious Rockefeller University in New York, in the Zabriskie Beta Strept Laboratory, a seminal introduction to the then-emerging field of immunology.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the City University of New York, Dr. Steinecker studied medicine at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, followed by a rotating internship in Long Beach, California.  Dr. Steinecker then accepted a position as the first female surgical resident at the Detroit Osteopathic Hospital.  After one year of general surgery training, Dr. Steinecker went on for three additional years of training in neurology.  Her residency at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan proved very fruitful.   While still in her first year of training, Dr. Steinecker presented three original scientific papers at the American Academy of Neurology on her original research in the autonomic nervous system.  In addition to her own research, while still a neurology resident, Dr. Steinecker served as a research consultant to the Department of Psychiatry as well, culminating again in the publication of an original scientific article.  Her continuing research, publications, and presentations at international scientific meetings won her an esteemed National Institute of Health  Research Training Grant at the University of Washington in Neurophysiology and Biophysics.  Dr. Steinecker has extensive teaching experience in all the above arenas of endeavor.  Curriculum vitae.   link