Philip Stieg

Dr. Steig has served as a member of PAVmed’s Medical Advisory Board since January 2015. Since 2000, Dr. Stieg has served as Professor and Chairman of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of Neurological Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. During this same period, he has also served as Professor of Neurosurgery and Attending Neurosurgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospitals in New York. In 2013, he founded and currently serves as Chairman of the Weil Cornell Brain and Spine Center.

In 2010 Dr. Stieg launched the Weill Cornell Surgical Innovations Lab. From 1989 to 2000, he served as Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Attending Neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospitals in Boston.

Dr. Stieg has served in leadership positions at national and international professional societies, including Chairman of the American Association of Neurological Surgery/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery (2004-2005) and President of the Society of University Neurosurgeons (2001-2002). He serves as Editor for the journals Neurosurgery and World Neurosurgery.

Dr. Stieg has had a productive academic career focused on cerebral protection, neural transplantation and neuronal regeneration. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, numerous abstracts, books and manuscripts. He has lectured and served as a visiting professor at leading institutions around the world. He serves as co-principal investigator for StrokeNet, an NIH initiative to conduct Phase I/II and III trials in stroke prevention, treatment and recovery. He has served as a consultant to several medial technology companies including Zeiss Optical, Codman (Johnson and Johnson), LifeCell, Diacrin and Medtronic. He has been an advisor to the Department of Defense and the National Football League on brain trauma.

Dr. Stieg received his neurosurgical training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Parkland Memorial Hospital) and completed a fellowship in cell transplantation for restorative neurological function at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.Dr. Stieg has been repeatedly recognized as one of America’s Top Doctors in the Castle Connolly Guide. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neuroscience from Albany Medical College of Union University, and his M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin.