Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, MD

Dr. Weiss is an internationally recognized hand surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedics at Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital. He is Editor of the Journal of Hand Surgery and the holder of seven U.S. patents for widely-used medical devices. Dr. Weiss has been honored with the America's Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America, and America's Top Surgeons awards. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he received B.A. and M.D. degrees. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a hand surgery fellowship at the Indiana Hand Center. He specializes in hand and wrist reconstruction with a special interest in finger and wrist joint replacement surgery. Dr. Weiss has published over 130 articles in medical journals, is Co-Editor of the major textbook, Hand Surgery, and regularly lectures throughout the world on hand and wrist disorders. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and Kinetikos Medical, Inc. He is a Trustee of the American Numismatic Society, the Rhode Island School of Design, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and the Collections Committee of the Harvard University Art Museums.