Matt Weiss is the deputy physician in Chief and Director of Surgical Oncology at Northwell Health Cancer Institute. He is an internationally recognized surgical oncologist with a special interest in pancreatic cancer and particularly interested in outcomes and matters of quality.
His early career followed a very traditional academic pathway culminating in a long period on Faculty at Hopkins where his senior mentor was Dr. John Cameron. As everyone knows, there is an expectation that Hopkins surgeons will become a Chair of a university department so it was a surprise for many when Matt changed direction and joined Northwell Health a few years ago.
As he describes in this fascinating interview, he was unable to resist the opportunity of improving cancer outcomes from within a large system like Northwell Health that cares for so many lives. Of course, he's still harbors ambitions on the academic front and believes that one day he will become a Chair when the time is right.
But for now he is passionately engaged in the vision of a system approach.
Of course, there is more to this man than his surgical career. A worryingly, good golfer, he is a lapsed fisherman and overcame his midlife crisis by buying a Porsche. He is also a fan of the Rolling Stones.
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https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/dr-matthew-john-weiss-md-1568416618
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-weiss-b1155a6/
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