{{Short description|American physician and neurosurgeon}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Philip Edwin Stieg | image = Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = | birth_date = July 1952 | birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = U.S. | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = Physician & Neurosurgeon | work_institutions = Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Children's Hospital of Boston; Weill Medical College; New York Presbyterian Medical Center | alma_mater = University of Wisconsin–Madison; Union University; Albany Medical College; Medical College of Wisconsin | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Research in neuroscience & neurosurgery | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = | signature = }}
'''Philip E. Stieg''' (born July 1952) is an American academic physician and neurosurgeon. He has been the Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center since 2000.<ref name="nyp">{{Cite web | url=http://www.nyp.org/physician/pstieg |title = Philip E. Stieg, PHD, MD- NewYork-Presbyterian}}</ref>
==Early life==
Stieg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<ref name="sns">{{Cite web | url=http://www.societyns.org/society/bio.aspx?MemberID=90676 | title=The Society of Neurological Surgeons | access-date=July 20, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712183735/http://www.societyns.org/society/bio.aspx?MemberID=90676 | archive-date=July 12, 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Education== Stieg earned a B.S. degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uwalumni.com/default.asp |title=Wisconsin Alumni Association - Your Gateway Back to UW-Madison |access-date=October 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701223114/http://www.uwalumni.com/default.asp |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He pursued graduate studies in neuroanatomy and neuroscience at Albany Medical College, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1980. He then attended medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, completing his M.D. degree in 1983.<ref name="nyp"/>
Stieg was a resident in general surgery and neurosurgery at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School and Parkland Memorial Hospital. Thereafter, he did a fellowship in cell transplantation for restorative neurological function at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
==Professional career== Stieg joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989.<ref name="sns"/> He developed research and clinical interests in cerebral protection and restorative function, neural transplantation, neuronal regeneration after stroke, cerebrovascular surgery, and surgery of the skull base.<ref>Greenfield JP, Ayuso-Sacido A, Schwartz TH, Pannullo S, Souweidane M, Stieg PE, Boockvar JA: Use of human neural tissue for the generation of progenitors. ''Neurosurgery'' 2008; 62: 21-37.</ref><ref>Fraser JF, Riina H, Mitra N, Gobin YP, Simon AS, Stieg PE: Treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms: looking to the past to register the future. ''Neurosurgery'' 2006; 59: 1157-1166.</ref><ref>Janardhan V, Biondi A, Riina HA, Sanelli PC, Stieg PE, Gobin YP: Vasospasm in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: diagnosis, prevention, and management. ''Neuroimaging Clin N Am'' 2006; 16: 483-496.</ref><ref>Stieg PE, Friedlander RM, Loeffler JS, Alexander E III: Endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery with intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging. ''Neurosurgery'' 2006; 58 (Suppl): S44-S51.</ref> His research has focused on the mechanisms of injury in the central nervous system after trauma and the mechanisms of cell-membrane transport and their implications after traumatic brain injury.<ref name="nyp"/><ref>Park KI, Himes BT, Stieg PE, et al.: Neural stem cells may be uniquely suited for combined gene therapy and cell replacement: evidence from engraftment of neurotrophin-3-expressing stem cells in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. ''Exp Neurol'' 2006; 199: 179-190.</ref>
In 2000, Stieg was named Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Weill-Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He has been listed in ''Who's Who in Health and Medical Services'' and ''The Best Doctors in America''.<ref name="nyp"/> He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in the medical literature<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/ | title=Home - PubMed - NCBI}}</ref> and has co-edited a textbook titled ''Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations''.<ref>Stieg PE, Batjer HH, Samson DS (Eds): ''Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations''. New York: Informa Healthcare, 2007. {{ISBN|0824709934}}</ref> In 2015, Stieg was named President of the Brain Tumor Foundation. <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.braintumorfoundation.org/welcome-dr-philip-e-stieg/ |title = Stieg}}</ref>
In 2014 Stieg was seen in the 1st Episode of the 2nd season of NY Med.
In 2015, Stieg was named President of the Brain Tumor Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.northwell.edu/neurosciences/news/the-latest/michael-schulder-md-appointed-brain-tumor-foundation-president|title = Michael Schulder, MD, appointed Brain Tumor Foundation president | Northwell Health}}</ref> and he now serves as a past president of that organization. In 2020, Dr Stieg was named the first Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://neurosurgery.weill.cornell.edu/about-us/news-updates/dr-stieg-named-first-hariri-professor-neurological-surgery|title = Dr. Stieg Named First Hariri Professor of Neurological Surgery | Neurological Surgery}}</ref>
In 2018, Stieg was appointed to the New York State Athletic Commission.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Stieg Appointed to the NYSAC |url=https://weillcornellbrainandspine.org/in-the-news/dr-stieg-appointed-nysac |access-date=12 January 2022 |work=Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center |date=August 13, 2018}}</ref>
Since 2021, Stieg has hosted the neuroscience podcast ''This Is Your Brain''. <ref>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-your-brain-with-dr-phil-stieg/id1457049580</ref>
In 2023, Stieg won the 40th Maurice Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. The award, the highest honor at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, recognizes an outstanding individual for exceptional and longtime service. <ref>https://neurosurgery.weillcornell.org/in-the-news/40th-maurice-greenberg-award-presented-dr-stieg</ref>
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