Attending physician
Northwell Health
Matthew J. Weiss, MD, FACS is the Deputy Physician-in-Chief and Director of Surgical Oncology for the Northwell Cancer Institute and is the Eli and Mollie Cohen Family Professor of Surgery and Oncology in the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Lake Success, NY. He is also a Professor at the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research and an Adjunct Professor at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a board certified surgeon who specializes in diseases of the pancreas and liver. He was previously the chief of hepatobiliary surgery at Johns Hopkins, where he was also the Director of the Pancreas and Liver Multidisciplinary Clinics and the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship. He has an active research program studying both basic science and translational research related to hepato-pancreato-ciliary malignancies. He serves as the Principal Investigator on numerous clinical trials that are enrolling at Northwell. He currently serves as the vice chair and leads the surgical oncology program at Northwell Health, where they perform >20,000 cancer operations across 23 hospitals annually. He is considered an international leader in both liver and pancreas surgery and has authored over 300 peer reviewed publications in the field.