Dr. Steven Stecker will serve as the Team Physician for the U.S. Under-18 Men's National Team at the 2018 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Men's World Championships in Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk, Russia. 

This is Stecker's third time serving Team USA in an IIHF World Championship but first time at the Under-18 Men's level. He previously served in the same capacity at the 2010 IIHF Men's World Championship in Cologne, Germany and the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championship in Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic. 

Stecker has also served USA Hockey's National Team Development Program at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge (2016, 2014) and the Under-18 Four Nations Tournament (2015). 

His other sports medicine experience includes stints with the NHL's Florida Panthers (1999-2002), the Arena Football League's Florida Bobcats (1999-2001), Major League Soccer's Miami Fusion (199-2001), the NFL's Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens (1998-1999) and the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers (1998-1990). He also served three years as the Team Physician for the New York University Atheltic Department (1995-1998). 

Stecker is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, with a Subspecialty Board Certification in Sports Medicine. He currently serves in a private practice with privileges at Saint Clare’s Hospital, Morristown Medical Center and the Denville Surgical Center.

Stecker currently resides in Randolph, New Jersey with his wife Karen and three daughters Jill, Alison and Leah.