Overview
| Specialty | Colon and Rectal Surgery/Proctology , Surgery |
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| Clinical Interests | Fistula |
| Gastrointestinal Bleeding | |
| Colon Resection | |
| Colon-Rectal Cancer | |
| Colorectal Surgery | |
| Crohn's Disease | |
| Gastrointestinal Cancer | |
| Inflammatory Bowel Diseases | |
| Surgery, Abdominal | |
| Surgery, General | |
| Ulcerative Colitis | |
| Languages | English |
| German | |
| Spanish | |
| Gender | Male |
| randolph.steinhagen@mountsinai.org | |
| Education and Training | MD, Wayne State University |
| Residency, Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital | |
| Fellowship, Colon & Rectal Surg., Cleveland Clinic Hospital | |
| Awards | 2009 Best Doctors New York Magazine |
| 2003 Medical Student Teaching Award Department of Surgery, The Mount Sinai Medical Center |
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| 1998 Excellence in Teaching Award Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
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| 1986 Dr. Robert Paradny Teaching Award Department of Surgery, The Mount Sinai Medical Center |
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| 1983 Colp Prize Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine |
Following graduation from Wayne State University of Medicine in 1977, Dr. Steinhagen completed his residency in General Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and a Fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic. On completion of his fellowship, Dr. Steinhagen returned to The Mount Sinai Medical Center and has been a member of the full-time faculty in the Department of Surgery since 1983.
Dr. Steinhagen is one of the most popular attendings of our faculty. In 1986, he received the Robert Parady Award given by the graduating surgery chief residents to the outstanding surgical attending. In 1998, he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the graduating medical students as the outstanding teacher in the clinical years. In 2003, he was honored with the Medical Student Teaching Award in Surgery.
His current research interests concern sphincter preserving surgery for rectal cancer and clinical studies of nonsurgical treatment of anal fissures. At Mount Sinai, Dr. Steinhagen was the first surgeon to use a "colon J-pouch" to reestablish intestinal continuity after radical surgery for distal rectal cancer. He continues to actively evaluate the role for "local excision" in the surgical treatment of selected cases of rectal carcinoma, and has presented his data on that subject in Korea and in India.
Since 2001, Dr. Steinhagen has been the Chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and the Program Director of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship Program.
Within Mount Sinai, Dr. Steinhagen is a member of the Surgery Education Committee, the Medical School Admissions Committee, and the Executive Curriculum Committee. He also serves on the Endoscopy Steering Committee. He is an adjunct member of the Department of Anatomy and Functional Morphology, and assists in teaching first-year students in Gross Anatomy lab.
Dr. Steinhagen has published significantly in the field of colon and rectal surgery. He is highly regarded by his peers outside the institution as well. He is a former President of the New York Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and is a member of several committees to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery.
