John D Heiss

I have cared for patients and conducted clinical trials as a board-certified neurosurgeon at the NIH Clinical Center for 31 years. I am the Head of the Surgical Neurology Branch Clinical Unit (SNB) and Program Director of the NIH Neurological Surgery Residency Training Program and Principal Investigator of 2 first-in-man clinical trials: 1) intraputaminal delivery of AAV2-GDNF to treat Parkinson’s disease and 2) intrathecal delivery of TRPV1-agonist resiniferatoxin, and 2 rare-disease studies.