{"id":1010,"date":"2025-01-04T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/?post_type=sbmt-leadership&#038;p=1010"},"modified":"2025-01-04T13:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:18:23","slug":"john-d-heiss","status":"publish","type":"sbmt-leadership","link":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/sbmt-leadership\/john-d-heiss\/","title":{"rendered":"John D. Heiss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John D. Heiss, M.D. is the Head of the Surgical Neurology Branch and Program Director of the Neurological Surgery Residency Training Program in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ninds.nih.gov\/glossary?title=NINDS\">NINDS<\/a>. Dr. Heiss received both his B.S. in Biomedical Sciences and M.D. degree from the University of Michigan. He completed his surgical internship and his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Prior to joining NINDS, Dr. Heiss was co-director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at the University of Cincinnati and a neurosurgeon in the Mayfield Neurological Institute. He completed a fellowship in neurosurgery research in the Surgical Neurology Branch before joining the senior staff of the Surgical Neurology Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Heiss is board certified in neurological surgery and is expert in the supervision and conduct of clinical trials for CNS disorders. He is Vice-Chair of the Combined Neurosciences&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ninds.nih.gov\/glossary?title=Institutional+Review+Board\">Institutional Review Board<\/a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ninds.nih.gov\/glossary?title=NIH\">NIH<\/a>&nbsp;and has served on numerous grant review panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Heiss is actively involved in clinical and translational research to improve the treatment of degenerative brain diseases, brain tumors, cancer pain, Chiari I malformation, and syringomyelia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Heiss has clinical interest and expertise in the treatment of patients with Chiari I malformation, syringomyelia, peripheral nerve tumors, and brain tumors. His research interests include intracerebral drug delivery, gene therapy for Parkinson\u2019s disease, treatment of severe, unremitting cancer pain with resiniferatoxin (RTX), and the natural history and surgical outcome of patients with Chiari I malformation and syringomyelia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Clinical Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chiari I malformation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Syringomyelia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)-associated peripheral nerve tumors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brain tumor treatment using functional mapping and intraoperative MRI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gene therapy for Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intrathecal injection of resiniferatoxin (RTX) for intractable cancer pain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education &amp; Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Residency, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Neurosurgery, 1981 \u2013 1987<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surgical Intern, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1980 \u2013 1981<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.D., University of Michigan, 1976-1980<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.S., University of Michigan, Biomedical Sciences, 1974-1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1011,"template":"","archive-award-gala":[],"active-gfc-awards-gala":[],"sbmt_staff":[],"leadership-awards":[],"leadership-group":[],"scientific-committee":[13,30,37],"class_list":["post-1010","sbmt-leadership","type-sbmt-leadership","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","scientific-committee-active","scientific-committee-archive","scientific-committee-nanoneurosurgery-and-neurophotonics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sbmt-leadership\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sbmt-leadership"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sbmt-leadership"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"archive-award-gala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive-award-gala?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"active-gfc-awards-gala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/active-gfc-awards-gala?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"sbmt_staff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sbmt_staff?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"leadership-awards","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership-awards?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"leadership-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/leadership-group?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"scientific-committee","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellekastaging.com\/worldbrainmapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scientific-committee?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}