Lyn D. Weiss MD, Chairman of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Department, is a 1985 graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Medicine and is Board Certified in both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Weiss is Professor of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at SUNY Stony Brook and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. She served both her internship and her residency at Nassau University Medical Center and has been Chairman of the Department since 1994. In addition to her Chairmanship, Dr. Weiss is also the Director of the Residency Training Program, the Director of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff.

Dr. Weiss has a strong interest in research, has written many articles, and has presented numerous lectures at the national level. Dr. Weiss has had four books published; Easy Injections, published in 2007, Easy EMG, published in 2004, Skin Care Triad, published in 2000, and Cumulative Trauma Disorder, published in 1998. She is presently working on a fifth book, The Oxford Handbook of PM&R, which will be published in 2009. She is a mentor for the medical students at both Stony Brook and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Weiss has been interviewed numerous times on both local and national television programs. Her peers recognize her contributions to Medicine and listed her in ‘The Best Doctors in America’, ‘Who’s Who in American Women’ and ‘Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.’