Dr. Steinmetz a native of Pennsylvania graduated from the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Delta International Premedical Honor Society. He received his medical degree from the University Of Florida College Of Medicine, Shands Teaching College in Gainesville. After an internship at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, California, he did his post doctoral residency in Neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and fellowship in Neurology at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. In July 1973, he established the practice of Neurology in Fort Myers.

Dr. Steinmetz is Board Certified and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He also is Board Certified in Electroencephalography and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Thermology. He is a Movement Disorders Specialist and is Director of the Parkinson’s Clinic for Lee Memorial Health System.

Dr. Steinmetz is a former president of the Medical Staff of Lee Memorial Hospital, and has served as Lee Memorial’s Chairman of the Department of Medicine. He also Served on Lee Memorial’s Executive Committee, where he helped establish a stroke team that later evolved into its present Rehabilitation Unit. Additionally, Dr. Steinmetz was medical director for Lee Memorial’s Neuroscience Center and is on the long-range planning committee for the hospital.

Dr Steinmetz has served as director of the Epilepsy Clinic in Fort Myers and participated in the Leadership Lee County program in November 1986. He also is the Neurologist team member of the Southwest Florida Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) Disorders Clinic.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, its highest rank of active membership and is a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists and Affiliate of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Pan American Medical Society and a member of the Florida Society of Neurology. Dr. Steinmetz is also a member of the Lee County Medical Society and the Florida Medical Association.

• Universtiy of Florida, College of Medicine

• Kaiser Foundation Hospital 1969-1970

• Neurology Fellow, University of Florida 1970-1971
• Neurology Resident, Pacific Medical Center Prespyterian Hospital 1971-1973

• State of Florida
• State of Georgia
• State of California