John F. Steiner, MD, MPH, is a Senior Clinician Investigator at the Institute for Health Research. His research focuses on increasing access to care, health equity, social determinants of health, treatment and visit adherence, and prevention and treatment of hypertension and diabetes.

Dr. Steiner received his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado. He earned his Master of Public Health degree at the University of Washington. Dr. Steiner has over 30 years of research experience, with his early work focused on developing and testing measures of medication adherence and using those measures in studies of the prevention and treatment of hypertension and diabetes. Another central focus of Dr. Steiner's research has been on improving access and quality of care for minority, vulnerable, and under-served populations. He was the inaugural Director of a "learning network" established in 2016, the Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation (SONNET) to promote rigorous evaluation of Kaiser Permanente programs that address social, economic, and behavioral needs among members. He now directs the Innovative Methods Promoting Operational Value and Efficiency (IMPROVE) program, an internally-funded project to rapidly conduct operationally relevant research in collaboration with operational leaders in Kaiser Permanente Colorado.

Dr. Steiner is a Professor of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine.