RDML Shane Steiner is the inaugural Executive Director, Health Services, for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). In this capacity, under the supervision and direction of the Coast Guard’s Chief Medical Officer, he integrates policy and policy implementation of the provision of all health care in the Coast Guard, with a focus on modernization of the Coast Guard Health System and improving and ensuring access to care for the Coast Guard’s over 100,000 TRICARE beneficiaries.
RDML Steiner began his military career in the U.S. Air Force, graduating as a Second Lieutenant from Detachment 750, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, in 1999. He then attended The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Medicine through the Health Professions Scholarship Program, graduating and entering Active Duty in 2003. He served in the Air Force for over 12 years as a Flight Surgeon and a Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Physician, completing four assignments and three deployments. He completed his residency in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2011. In 2015 he completed an inter-service transfer to the U.S. Public Health Service and was detailed to the Coast Guard, where he completed a four-year tour as Chief of Preventive Medicine and Population Health at Coast Guard Headquarters. From March 2019 through April 2024 he fleeted up and served as the Chief, Division of Operational Medicine and Quality Improvement, Physician Force Manager, and Assistant Chief Medical Officer.
RDML Steiner’s military decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars, the Air Medal, the Air Force Achievement Medal, the USPHS Presidential Unit Citation, the Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation with one silver star and one gold star, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with one bronze star, the Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal, and the Air Force Expeditionary Ribbon with one oak leaf cluster and gold border, among others. He has 361 total flying hours, including 88.5 combat hours. He is one of only a handful of Flight Surgeons who has ever flown on the B-2A Spirit Stealth Bomber, with Spirit Number 447.