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Dr. Steiner is originally from Mahopac, NY in Putnam County where he was raised on a small family farm with horses and cattle. In 1961, he enrolled in the NY State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and entered the NY State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell in 1964, graduating with a DVM degree in 1968.
From 1968 - 1970, Dr. Steiner was an associate in a predominately bovine and equine practice in Newton, NJ. In 1970, he struck out on his own, founding an equine practice in Mahopac, NY serving lower Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester counties and Western Connecticut. In 1989, he sold his practice to an associate, Dr. Mark Jordan, and moved to a Thoroughbred farm in Lexington, KY and started a new equine practice.
In 1992, Dr. Steiner joined Hagyard Davidson and McGee in Lexington. He began the Equine Fertility Unit at the practice and became director of the unit. He specializes in stallion and mare reproductive problems, equine embryo transfer, semen freezing and other assisted reproductive techniques.
Dr. Steiner has authored numerous scientific papers, book chapters and a variety of equine reproductive topics, and is a sought after speaker at various local, national and international veterinary meetings. He is a diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists serving as its President in 2005-2006.
In 2008, Dr. Steiner and his wife, Geri, moved to the family farm in Red Hook, NY and he joined the staff at the Rhinebeck Equine where he specializes in equine reproduction.