Jeffrey S. Oppenheim, M.D.
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
-Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern -Nyack Hospital, Nyack
-St. Anthony’s Hospital, Warwick -Bon Secours Community Hospital, Port Jervis
- Orange Regional Medical Center, Goshen -Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw
-Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown -Catskill Regional Medical Center, Harris
-Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York -St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital, New York City
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
Instructor in Neurosurgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1995-
ASSOCIATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
New York State Neurosurgical Society
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
North American Spine Society
Medical Society of the State of New York (Board Member, 1999-2003)
Rockland County Medical Society (President, 1998-1999)
Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee, (Regional Chairman, 1997-)
POST-GRADUATE TRAINING
Chief Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, N.Y.C., 1993-1994
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, N.Y.C, 1989-1994.
Intern, Department of Surgery, Mt Sinai Medical Center, N.Y.C., 1988-1989.
EDUCATION
MD with Honors in Research, Cornell University Medical College, N.Y.C., N.Y., 1988.
A.B. Neuroscience, Summa Cum Laude, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1984.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Oppenheim JS: Prolotherapy for spine pain (letter). Spine J 6(1): 102, 2006
-Oppenheim, JS, Spitzer DE, Segal DH: Nonvascular complications following spinal manipulation. Spine J 5(6):660-6, 2005
-Oppenheim JS, Segal D, Spitzer D: Persistent iliac crest donor site pain: Independent outcome assessment. Neurosurgery 51(3):854-5, 2002.
- Spitzer D, Oppenheim J, Segal D: ACF with and without plates (letter). Surgical Neurology, 57(3):212, 2001.
-Oppenheim JS: Osteopathic treatment of low back pain (letter). The New England Journal of Medicine 342(11): 817, 2000.
-Oppenheim JS, Spitzer DS, Segal DH: Fibrin glue for cranial defects (letter). Surgical Neurology 51: 348-9, 1999.
-Spitzer DS, Oppenheim JS: Arterial subdural hematoma (letter). Surgical Neurology, 48: 210: 1997.
-Radomisli TE, Oppenheim JS, Casden AM, Camins MB. Benign tumors of the bony spine; in Menezes AH and Sonntag VK (eds): Principles of Spinal Surgery, Volume 2, Chapter 89, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.
-Camins MB, Oppenheim JS, Perrin RG. Tumors of the vertebral axis: Benign, primary malignant and metastatic tumors; in Yeomans JR (ed): Neurological Surgery, Volume IV, Chapter 147, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1995.
-Harrison MJ, Eisenberg MB, Ullman JS, Oppenheim JS, Camins MB, Post KD: Symptomatic cavernous malformations affecting the spine and spinal cord. Neurosurgery, 37(2):195-205, 1995.
-Oppenheim J, Camins MB, Bookler K. Suboccipital transmeatal appoach to acoustic neuromas: Anatomic and surgical techniques; in Samii M (ed): Skull Base Sugery: Anatomy, Diagnosis and Treatment, Basel, Karger, 1994.
-Oppenheim JS. Neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Journal of Neurosurgery, 80(5):935-938, 1994
-Segal DH, Oppenheim JS, Murovic JA. Neurological recovery after cranioplasty. Neurosurgery, 34(4):729-731, 1994.
-Oppenheim JS, Strauss RC, Rothman AS. Ependymomas of the third ventricle. Neurosurgery, 34(2):350-353, 1994.
-Oppenheim JS, Rothman AS, Sachdev VP: Thoracic herniated discs: experience with 12 cases. Mt Sinai Journal of Medicine, 60(4):321-326, 1993.
-Camins MB, Oppenheim JS: The surg. anat. of acoustic neuromas. Neurosurgical Operative Atlas, Vol 3-1, No 109, 1993.
-Oppenheim JS, Camins MB: Prognosing the brain injured patient: what the primary care physician needs to know. Postgraduate Medicine, 91(9):261, 1992.
-Camins MB, Oppenheim JS: Anatomy and surgical techniques in the suboccipital transmeatal approach to acoustic neuromas. Clin Neurosurg., 38: 567-602, 1992.
-Oppenheim J: Atraumatic subdural hematoma associated with moyamoya disease. Reply. Neurosurgery, 29:635, 1991.
-Oppenheim JS, Gennuso R, Sacher M, Hollis P: Acute atraumatic subdural hematoma associated with moyamoya disease in an African-American. Neurosurgery, 28:616-618, 1991.
-Oppenheim JS, Rosenblum BR, Sacher M, Wolfe D, Wallace S, Rothman AS: Intracranial chordoma in a preadolescent. Surgical Neurology, 35: 230-233, 1991.
-Oppenheim JS, Gazzaniga MS: Magnetic resonance imaging morphology of the corpus callosum in monozygotic twins. Annals of Neurology, 26(1):100-104, 1989.
-Oppenheim J, Gazzaniga MS: No sex-related differences in human corpus callosum based on magnetic resonance imaging. Annals of Neurology, 21:604-606, 1987.
-Foxman BT, Oppenheim J, Petito CK, Gazzaniga MS: Proportional anterior commissure area in humans and monkeys. Neurology, 36(11): 1513-1517, 1986.
SELECTED LECTURES
Neurosurgical Trauma, Hudson Valley Trauma Symposium, 11/2006
EMT Training Seminar: Head Trauma, 2005
Trigeminal Neuralgia, NYS Nursing Society, Good Samaritan Hospital, 2003.
Injuries of the spinal cord, ACCRN lecture, 3/16/99.
New Techniques in the treatment of recurrent glioblastomas", Neuroscience Task Force, 11/98.
EMT Training Seminar: Head Trauma, Good Samaritan Hosp., 1998
Neurosurgery Update, 1998, Horton Hospital, Middletown, NY, 1998
Gifts of Life: A Seminar on Organ and Tissue Donation, 9/28/95, Nyack Hospital
Pituitary Surgery, Endocrinology Conference, Nyack Hospital, 1995.
Neurosurgery Update: 1995, Good Samaritan Hospital; Arden Hill Hospital
Spinal Instrumentation, Medical Grand Rounds, Nyack Hospital, 1994.
SELECTED CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (Physician’s Recognition Award of the AMA)
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 75th Annual Meeting, 2007
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, 2006
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, 2005
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 72nd Annual Meeting 5/2004
LINAC Radiosurgery 2002, December 4 – Sunday, December 8, 2002
AANS/CNS, Joint Section on Spinal Disorders, 2002
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 69th Annual Meeting 4/2001.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 67th Annual Meeting, 4/1999.
Educational Design: New Concepts and Options in Bone Grafting, 5/1999
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 66th Annual Meeting, 1998.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 64th Annual Meeting, 1996.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 60th Annual Meeting, 1992.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, 1992.
AANS/CNS, Joint Section on Spinal Disorders, 1991.
OTHER RECOGNITIONS
Listed in Castle-Connelly’s Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area, 1999,2000,2001, 2002, 2003, .2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1999,200,2001,2002, 2003, 2004. 2005, 2006, 2007
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, 1999,200,2001,2002, 2003. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Listed in Hudson Valley Magazine’s “Top Doctors”, 2006, 2007
APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS
-Rockland County Board of Health, Member, 2001-2006; President, 2007-
-Town of Ramapo, PBA Surgeon, 2003-
-Elected, Montebello Board of Trustees, 2003-2007 (4 year term)
-Elected, Mayor, Village of Montebello, 2007-2011 (4 year term)
-Good Samaritan Hospital, Board of Trustees, 2004-