Julia Steinberger, MD, MS

Dr. Steinberger is a Professor and Division Director in Pediatric Cardiology. She is the Director of the Pediatric Lipid Clinic at the University of Minnesota, Medical Director of the Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and Director of Research at the University of Minnesota National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Dr. Steinberger earned her MD degree at Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University in Israel and completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Golda Medical Center, Hasharon Hospital, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University in Israel. She completed a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Minnesota and obtained a Master's degree in Clinical Research, School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Steinberger’s research interests are focused on clinical and epidemiologic studies of metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk factors in children and young adults. She has been and continues to be funded by the NIH in these studies. She currently serves on several committees of the American Heart Association and on expert panels in areas of preventive cardiology.

• American Heart Association
• Council on Cardiovascular Diseases of the Young
• Committee on Atherosclerosis, Obesity and Hypertension in the Young, Chair elected

Recipient of two NIH R01 grants: 1) Metabolic Syndrome in childhood cancer survivors; 2) Cardiovascular risk and insulin resistance: age 7-40.