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Jeffrey S. Oppenheim is a neurosurgeon in New York and the second Mayor of the Village of Montebello New York.

Education

Dr. Oppenheim received his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Princeton University in 1984, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He graduated from Cornell University Medical College in 1988 with an M.D. with Honors in Research. From 1988 to 1994 he trained as a neurosurgeon at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, serving as Chief Resident from 1993 to 1994. He became Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons in 1996.

Hospital Affiliations


 * Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, New York


 * Nyack Hospital, Nyack, New York


 * St. Anthony Community Hospital, Warwick, New York


 * Bon Secours Community Hospital, Port Jervis, New York


 * Orange Regional Medical Center, New York


 * Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, New York
 * Catskill Regional Medical Center, Harris, New York


 * Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York


 * St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital, New York City


 * St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh and Cornwall, New York


 * Surgicare Ambulatory Surgery Center, Mahwah, New Jersey

Association Memberships

American Association of Neurological Surgeons New York State Neurosurgical Society [http://www.cns.org/

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)

Rockland County Board of Health (Board Member, 2001-; President, 2006-)

Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee, (Regional Chairman, 1997-)

Awards and Distinctions

Distinguished Service Award, from the Legislature of Rockland County, September, 2010.

Listed in Castle-Connelly’s Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area, 1999-2011.

Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1999-2011. Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, 1999-2011 Listed in Hudson Valley Magazine’s “Top Doctors”, 2006-2011.

Chief, Section of Neurosurgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, York. Healthgrades recognized the spine program at Good Samaritan Hospital, under Dr. Oppenheim's leadership, with its highest rating: 5 stars.

Political Interest

Dr. Oppenheim was elected to the Board of Trustees in the Village of Montebello in 2003. The grass roots local political party he founded, Preserve Montebello, took majority control of the Board of Trustees in 2005. In 2007 he was elected Mayor of the Village. He is the second Mayor in the history of the Village, which was incorporated in 1986.

Under the Mayor's leadership the Village has become active and engaged in historic preservation, open space acquisition, tree preservation, and has encouraged the use of renewable energy sources. The Village was the first municipality in Rockland County to be recognized as a "Climate Smart Community" by the NYS DEC., as a "Tree City" by the Arbor Day Foundation and the USDA. , and a Historic "Certified Local Government" by National Park Service and New York State. He has led the Village in the acquisition of a Community Center, the dedication of several parks, the installation of solar electric panels to serve municipal facilities, the review of the Villages Comprehensive Plan, the renovation of Village Hall, and a reduction in the size of the budget. Taxes in the Village of Montebello, having the lowest rate of any Village in the Town of Ramapo, were not raised in either 2010 or 2011.

Philanthropic Interest

From 2004-1009, Dr. Oppenheim served on the Board of Trustees of Good Samaritan Hospital. During his tenure the hospital established an open heart surgical program.

Dr. Oppenheim serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Jewish Historical Society. He helped to secure and preserve the oldest Jewish Tallit in America.

Selected Publications

Oppenheim, JS, Spitzer D, Winfree CJ: Spinal cord bypass surgery using peripheral nerve transfers: review of translational studies and a case report on its use following complete spinal cord injury in a human. Neurosurgical Focus, February 2009 Volume 26, Number 2 http://thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/FOC.2009.26.2.E6

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.

References

External Links

Hudson Valley Brain and Spine Surgery website