Norman Weinzweig, MD, FACS

Specialties

Dr. Norman Weinzweig is a highly experienced hand specialist and reconstructive surgeon who founded The Chicago Institute for Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation, a major state-​of-​the-​art referral center for patients from Chicago and surrounding areas that draws patients from across the country and around the world. His cases range from simple hand conditions treated non-​operatively to very complex multi-​staged surgeries, such as replantation of amputated fingers and hands, that require microsurgical expertise. He is recognized as an accomplished hand specialist and is frequently consulted by his peers for his clinical experience and expertise in the acute and chronic care of severely traumatized hand injuries that occur in industrial and other accidents.

For more than 25 years, Dr. Norman Weinzweig been performing highly complex hand and microvascular surgery, replanting and revascularizing amputated digits and hands, treating mutilating injuries of the upper extremity, nerve injuries, burns as well as stiff functionless digits and hands due to severe scar contractures in the United States. Dr. Norman Weinzweig advocates a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of these complex hand problems producing superb clinical outcomes.

History

Established in 1991.

Spearheaded by Dr. Norman Weinzweig, The Chicago Institute for Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation is a major state-​of-​the-​art referral center for patients not only from Chicago and surrounding areas. Hand trauma patients are evaluated and treated immediately or within 24 hours for hand conditions ranging from fingertip injuries to multiple digit replantations or reconstruction of the mutilated hand. Chronic hand conditions, often due to scarring from previous trauma with severe contractures and debilitating pain, are routinely treated at the Institute. Dr. Norman Weinzweig provides innovative solutions to these difficult hand problems with outstanding clinical outcomes.

Meet the Business Owner

Norman W.

Business Owner

Dr. Norman Weinzweig is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery from the American Board of Plastic Surgery since 1990 and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1993. He is also Board Certified in Hand Surgery having attained the Certificate of Added Qualifications in Hand Surgery in 1992 and recertified in 2002 and 2012. A distinguished plastic surgeon and hand surgeon, Dr. Weinzweig has an esteemed career in academic and clinical practice at several major university centers for more than 25 years, the last 22 years in Chicago.

A nationally and internationally-​renowned surgeon, educator, author and lecturer, Dr. Norman Weinzweig has contributed extensively to the fields of plastic surgery and hand surgery with 104 articles in peer-​reviewed journals, 38 book chapters, 87 scientific abstracts, 5 educational videotapes, and over 250 regional, national and international presentations. Dr. Norman Weinzweig has co-​edited the 650-​page textbook, «The Mutilated Hand».