Dr. Steinberg graduated with honors from Vassar College with a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior. She went on to pursue her MD/PhD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Jose Luis Pena in the Department of Neuroscience. During her PhD, Dr. Steinberg studied neural coding and signal processing in the brain stem. She has presented many posters and has published several papers, including two first author of papers published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Going forward, Dr. Steinberg plans to study biomarkers and novel treatment protocols for major depressive disorder.