Dr. Steinle completed her undergraduate training in nutrition prior to completing her medical degree. She completed an internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Dr. Steinle's major research interests are directed at understanding the molecular and genetic aspects of blood-pressure regulation, obesity, metabolic syndrome and eating behavior. Dr. Steinle is currently exploring genes and genetic variants on chromosome 2 that influence blood-pressure regulation. She is also interested in unraveling the genetic contribution to salt sensitive hypertension.

Dr. Steinle published the first genome-wide scan of eating behavior traits. She demonstrated that eating behavior is heritable and that there may be specific genetic loci that regulate eating behavior. Currently she is studying candidate genes that may regulate eating behavior. Her work focuses on the study of genetic variation in taste receptor genes and their role in eating behavior, nutrient intake, diabetes and obesity.

Dr. Steinle is also involved in teaching nutrition in the medical curriculum. She is co-course director of the cell and molecular biology course. She teaches nutrition in the physiology and therapeutics course, as well as in the clinical components of the medical curriculum.

Diabetes

Nutrition

Endocrinology

Genome-wide association studies