Dr Andrew Weiss
MD BSc MSc FRCPC(ANES) FFPMANZCA FANZCA
Dr Andrew Weiss is an Interventional Pain Medicine Specialist, with supplementary training in Paediatric Pain Management. Dr Weiss specialises in minimally invasive interventions for the treatment of persistent pain with the goal of relieving pain and improving function and quality of life. He is a specialist in the treatment of a comprehensive range of pain conditions including:
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Pain after spine surgery
- Neuropathic pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Shoulder pain
- Knee and hip pain
Dr Weiss takes a holistic socio-psycho-biomedical approach to the assessment of his patient’s pain experience and development of treatment recommendations.
As well as practising at the Northern Pain Centre, he is appointed as a Pain Medicine Specialist at the Michael J Cousins Pain Management and Research Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr Weiss has a keen interest in teaching and academia and continues to be involved in as an investigator in clinical trials. He teaches medical students at the University of Sydney about the management of pain and supervises medical student MD degree research block research projects.
Dr Weiss is involved with teaching and leadership at a national level as a member of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (ANZCA) scientific meetings committee, Chair of the FPM NSW regional committee and Convenor of the NSANZ procedure training workshops (cadaveric).