Stieg joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989.[2] He developed research and clinical interests in cerebral protection and restorative function, neural transplantation, neuronal regeneration after stroke, cerebrovascular surgery, and surgery of the skull base.[4][5][6][7] His research has focused on the mechanisms of injury in the central nervous system after trauma and the mechanisms of cell-membrane transport and their implications after traumatic brain injury.[1][8]
In 2000, Stieg was named Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Weill-Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He has been listed in Who's Who in Health and Medical Services and The Best Doctors in America.[1] He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in the medical literature[9] and has co-edited a textbook titled Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations.[10] In 2015, Stieg was named President of the Brain Tumor Foundation. [11]
In 2014 Stieg was seen in the 1st Episode of the 2nd season of NY Med.
In 2015, Stieg was named President of the Brain Tumor Foundation,[12] and he now serves as a past president of that organization. In 2020, Dr Stieg was named the first Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery.[13]
In 2018, Stieg was appointed to the New York State Athletic Commission.[14]
Since 2021, Stieg has hosted the neuroscience podcast This Is Your Brain. [15]
In 2023, Stieg won the 40th Maurice Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. The award, the highest honor at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, recognizes an outstanding individual for exceptional and longtime service. [16]
