Jan M. Steckel, M.D.,
F.A.A.P.
Address:
PO Box 18797/Oakland, CA 94619.
E-mail: jan.steckel@post.harvard.edu
Spanish
and English written, read and spoken fluently.
Board-Certified
in Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, 1997
Physician
and Surgeon License, Medical Board of California, 1997
Fellow
of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 2000
1994-1997 Boston Children's Hospital
Pediatrics Residency (Harvard Program), Boston, Massachusetts. Graduated from residency in General
Pediatrics, July 1997.
1989-1994 Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, Connecticut. M.D., May
1994.
1979-1983 Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. B.A. summa
cum laude in English with emphasis on creative writing, June 1983.
1987-1988 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Premedical courses completed while doing
research full-time in neuroscience laboratory.
1983-1984 Oxford University, Oxford,
England. Studied Golden Age Spanish
Literature on a Henry Fellowship.
3/98-3/01 Physician Associate at The
Permanente Medical Group, Hayward, California. As a career-track pediatrician at a Kaiser outpatient
clinic, I was the primary care provider
for over 2,000 children, 80% of whom were Hispanic, and many of whom were on
MediCal, AFDC or Healthy Families. Most
of the care I provided was in Spanish.
I was Chief of the Cultural Competence Committee, served on the
Pediatric Asthma Committee, and acted as a New Physician Orientation
Liaison. I founded and staffed our
Spanish High-Risk Asthma Clinic, designed and taught a six-part CME series on
Culturally Competent Care, and started and ran the local Chapter of KP Pride,
the Kaiser-Permanente Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered organization.
7/97-1/98 Locum Tenens as Staff
Pediatrician, Natividad Medical Center, Salinas, California. Conducted an outpatient general pediatric
clinic in Spanish and English (with a special interest in care of adolescents),
attended on the pediatric ward, ICU and Level II Nursery of Monterey County's
public hospital, taught residents and medical students in supervision and in
formal lectures, evaluated sexual abuse at the Bates-Eldridge Clinic, and spoke
at local schools and community groups.
1994-1997 Resident in Pediatrics, Boston
Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Completed a residency in general pediatrics
at the Harvard residency program.
Responsibilities included direct patient care as well as supervision and
teaching of residents and other medical students. Grand Rounds Lecturer at Children's Hospital in March, 1997: "The Usual Suspects: Vertical Transmission of HIV in
Boston."
1987-1989 Research Assistant in the
neuroscience laboratory of Dr. Bart Hoebel, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey. Measured release
of cyclic AMP in the rat nucleus accumbens in response to local dopamine
stimulation using in vivo microdialysis and radio-immune assay.
1985-1987
Peace Corps Volunteer in
Health Education, Samaná, Dominican Republic. Taught mothers and children about disease and injury prevention,
nutrition and first aid. Vaccinated
children as part of a World Health Organization project.
1984-1985 Research Assistant in the
immunology laboratory of Dr. Karen Thompson, Oakland Children's Hospital,
Oakland, California. Developed
monoclonal antibodies to several strains of Streptococcus.
1982 Research Assistant in
the immunology laboratory of Dr. Christel Uittenbogaart, UCLA School of
Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
Developed a clonogenic assay for leukemia-derived T-cell growth factor.
1981 Research Assistant in
the immunology laboratory of Dr. John Fahey, UCLA School of Medicine, Los
Angeles, California. Performed
tissue culture of lymphocytes and interleukin-2 assays.
1980 Principal Clerk at the
UCLA Tumor Registry, Los Angeles, California. Followed progress of Spanish-speaking cancer
patients.
1978-1979 Volunteer Spanish-English
Interpreter and Assistant at La Clinica Familia de Venice, Venice,
California. Assisted
English-speaking physicians in caring for Spanish-speaking patients in a free
family medical clinic.
1993 Medical Student
Research Fellowship. One-year Yale
fellowship awarded for M.D. thesis research on "Patients' and Families'
Attitudes Toward the Inclusion of Medical Students in the Clinical Care of
Pediatric Patients."
1992 Marguerite Rush Lerner
Award for Creative Writing for a collection of short stories.
1988 Sigma Xi, the
scientific research honors society, for neuroscience research done at
Princeton.
1983 Harvard University
Early Phi Beta
Kappa (in top 1% of class)
Rhodes Finalist
summa cum laude
Harvard Scholar
and Agassiz Scholar
Henry Fellowship
(awarded for academic excellence to one Harvard or Yale student each year, paid
travel and all expenses at Oxford University for one year).
1982 Research grant from the
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America for developing a clonogenic assay
for leukemia-derived T-cell growth factor.
Steckel,
Jan. "The Pediatrician’s Prayer for
Perfection" and "Radiating Pain," in an anthology (ed. Mary
Ford-Grabowsky) to be published by HarperCollins in March, 2003.
Steckel,
Jan. "Hands-On Experience: An
Emergency Department," in the column Code Blue Stories, Hospital
Physician, November 1998.
Steckel,
Jan. "Telegram from Another
Planet" and "Family Medicine," in Becoming Doctors, ed.
Parminder Bolina, Student Doctors Press, 1995.
Geiger,
Jan. "Letter from the End of the
Third Year," Diverticulum: Yale
Medical School Literary Magazine, 3:20, 1993.
Geiger,
Jan. "Chemé," Yale
Medicine: Alumni Bulletin of the School
of Medicine, 27(1):12-13, Fall/Winter 1992-1993.
Geiger,
Jan. "Drowning in the Gene
Pool," Diverticulum: Yale
Medical School Literary Magazine, 1:29, 1991.
Hoebel,
B. G., Hernandez, L., Mark, G. P., Schwartz, D. H., Pothos, E., Steckel, J. M.,
and Stone, E. A. "Brain
Microdialysis as a Molecular Approach to Obesity: Serotonin, Dopamine and Cyclic-AMP," in Obesity: Towards a Molecular Approach, ed. Bray
et al., UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, 132:55, 1989.
I
write published fiction, sing, and volunteer in the yearly Neighbors in Health
Fair for the indigent in Stockton, California.