NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER’S LYN D. WEISS, MD, NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK AREA’S BEST DOCTORS IN BEST DOCTORS IN AMERICA 2007-2008 DATABASE
— Well-deserved testament to Dr.Weiss’s skills as a top physician committed to NUMC’s mission of providing patients with the highest quality of care regardless of ability to pay —
East Meadow, NY….Lyn D. Weiss, MD, NUMC’s chair of the physical medicine and rehabilitation department, has been named one of the New York area’s Best Doctors, as published in the Best Doctors in America 2007-2008 database.
According to Best Doctors, the selection process was a yearlong process, with questionnaires sent to thousands of top physicians in the New York area. Nominees were sought in almost every specialty, with the emphasis on direct patient care. Dr. Weiss specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and electrodiagnostic medicine.
Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO, stated: “With over 50,000 doctors practicing in the New York area, it is most impressive that Dr. Weiss has been included in Best Doctors in America and we are proud and honored to have her as a member of our clinical staff at NUMC.” Gianelli added, “Dr. Weiss’s commitment to NUMC’s mission of providing high quality care to all regardless of ability to pay plays a key role in strengthening research and education in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation and electrodiagnostic medicine.”
Lyn D. Weiss MD, chairman of the physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) department is a 1985 graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Medicine and is board certified in both physical medicine and rehabilitation and electrodiagnostic medicine. She served both her internship and her residency at Nassau University Medical Center and has been chairman of the department since 1994. In addition to the chairmanship, Dr. Weiss is also the director of the residency-training program, and the director of electrodiagnostic medicine.
Dr. Weiss has a strong interest in research and has presented numerous papers, abstracts and research developments to Medical Society meetings and seminars and served as a manuscript reviewer for Academy publications. Dr. Weiss has had four books published; Cumulative Trauma Disorder, published in 1998 and Skin Care Triad, published in 2000, Easy EMG, published in 2004, and Easy Injections, published in 2007. She is presently working on a new book, Oxford Handbook of PM&R, which will be published in 2008. She is a mentor for the medical students at both Stony Brook and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Weiss is a professor of clinical physical medicine and rehabilitation at SUNY Stony Brook.
Dr. Weiss has been interviewed numerous times on both local and national television programs and local radio shows. Her peers recognize her contributions to medicine and listed her in ‘The Best Doctors in America’, ‘Who’s Who in American Women’ and ‘Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.’
