Rodney Steiner
Rodney Steiner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1959. He grew up In Ohio and Wisconsin before moving to New Orleans in 1969. After graduating from high school in New Orleans, Rodney attended the University of Texas, became a resident of Texas, and then stayed for medical school in Houston. Rodney returned to New Orleans to do his general surgery training, where he met and married his wife, Jane, who works in Commercial Property Management. In 1991, he and his wife moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Rodney completed pediatric general surgery training. In 1993, they moved back to New Orleans, where Rodney served as a physician, first for Tulane Medical School and then the Children's Hospital. He and his wife Jane have four children.
Rodney discusses his childhood, family life, and moving to New Orleans when he was ten. He traces his education and career path to settling in New Orleans with his wife and family and working as a physician. Rodney talks about his experience during Hurricane Katrina and the storm's impacts on his family, community, and career. Rodney and his family stayed at Tulane Medical Center through the storm, and he describes the events there. He shares stories of physicians who stayed during the crises, physicians who left, hospitals that rose to the challenge, and doctors, at the height of their career, starting over in unfamiliar terrain due to personnel cutbacks that followed the storm. Rodney discusses his hopes for the future and the importance of a teaching hospital as an economic engine. He discusses New Orleans and its economic engines. Finally, Rodney reflects on Judaism, raising his family, and his love and devotion to his family and the city of New Orleans.
