Alexis Steinberg MD

Alexis Steinberg, MD is an assistant professor in the departments of Neurology, Critical Care Medicine, and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is board-certified in neurology and neurocritical care and attends in a mixed neurologic and medical intensive care unit and on the Post-Cardiac Arrest Service. Her research is focused on improving outcomes of patients with severe acute brain injuries. Her work has confirmed that the process of neurological prognostication is common and complex. She has shown that clinicians are imprecise, biased and overconfident when prognosticating for patients with hypoxic ischemic injury. Therefore, she continues to study clinicians’ cognitive approach to neurologic prognostication after sever acute brain injury with a focus on anoxic brain injury. Dr. Steinberg's goal is to develop interventions to improve prognostication, which will prevent both the inappropriate withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies in recoverable cases and survival with unacceptable quality of life.