Specialty	Neurological Surgery
Clinical Interests	Spine Surgery
	Congenital Spinal Malformations
	Degenerative Spinal Disorders
	Endoscopic Neurosurgery
	Facial Pain
	Herniated Disc
	Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Languages	English
	Spanish
	Hebrew
Gender	Female
E-mail	nirit.weiss@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, Yale University School of Medicine
	Residency, Neurosurgery, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins
	Internship, General Surgery, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins
Awards	2003 Business of Medicine Academic Fellowship Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/ Johns Hopkins School of Professional Studies in Business and Education
	2001 Irving J. Sherman Award for Outstanding Neurosurgery Resident Achievement
	1998 Farr Scholarship for Outstanding Medical Student
	1998 Peter F. Curran Prize for Outstanding Thesis
	1995 - 1996 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship
	1994 NIH Short-Term Research Training Fellowship
	1993 magna cum laude Harvard University
	1989 - 1993 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award
	1989 - 1993 Harvard College Scholarship
	1989 - 1993 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Certificate of Merit
	1989 - 1993 John Harvard Scholarship

Dr. Weiss joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai in 2005. She came from Johns Hopkins where she had finished her residency and was an Instructor of Neurosurgery. Following residency, she obtained advanced training with the spine team at Hopkins, headed by Dr. Zia Gokaslan. Dr. Weiss?? clinical interests include complex spine, primary and metastatic tumors of the spine and spinal cord and degenerative diseases of the spine.

Education and Training	MD, Yale University School of Medicine
	Residency, Neurosurgery, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins
	Internship, General Surgery, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins

Specialty	Neurological Surgery
Clinical Interests	Spine Surgery
	Congenital Spinal Malformations
	Degenerative Spinal Disorders
	Endoscopic Neurosurgery
	Facial Pain
	Herniated Disc
	Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Languages	English
	Spanish
	Hebrew

Weiss N, North RB, Ohara S, Lenz FA. Attenuation of cerebellar tremor with implantation of an intrathecal baclofen pump: the role of gamma-aminobutyric acidergic pathways. Case report. J Neurosurg 2003 Oct; 99(4): 768-71.

Weiss N, Solomon SB. Talc pleurodesis mimics pleural metastases: differentiation with positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Clin Nucl Med 2003 Oct; 28(10): 811-4.

Ohara S, Crone NE, Weiss N, Treede RD, Lenz FA. Cutaneous painful laser stimuli evoke responses recorded directly from primary somatosensory cortex in awake humans. J Neurophysiol 2004 Jun; 91(6): 2734-46.

Gallia GL, Weiss N, Campbell JN, Mccarthy EF, Tufaro AP, Gokaslan ZL. Vertebral synovial chondromatosis. Report of two cases and review of the literature. J Neurosurg Spine 2004 Sep; 1(2): 211-8.

Ohara S, Weiss N, Lenz FA. Microstimulation in the region of the human thalamic principal somatic sensory nucleus evokes sensations like those of mechanical stimulation and movement. J Neurophysiol 2004 Feb; 91(2): 736-45.

Ohara S, Crone NE, Weiss N, Treede RD, Lenz FA. Amplitudes of laser evoked potential recorded from primary somatosensory, parasylvian and medial frontal cortex are graded with stimulus intensity. Pain 2004 Jul; 110(1-2): 318-28.

Ohara S, Crone NE, Weiss N, Vogel H, Treede RD, Lenz FA. Attention to pain is processed at multiple cortical sites in man. Exp Brain Res 2004 Jun; 156(4): 513-7.

Weiss N. E-mail consultation: clinical, financial, legal, and ethical implications. Surg Neurol 2004 May; 61(5): 455-9.

Ohara S, Crone NE, Weiss N, Lenz FA. Attention to a painful cutaneous laser stimulus modulates electrocorticographic event-related desynchronization in humans. Clin Neurophysiol Jul 2004; 115(7): 1641-52.