Company description
Alexander M. Spiess MD, is the priciple and founder of Pittsburgh Hand and Nerve, P.C., a medical practice dedicated to providing comprehensive care of all issues as they pertain to the hands, wrist, elbows, nerves, scars and wounds throughout the body. There is not much which he has not seen and addressed in his many years as Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was the Division Chief of Hand Surgery for 10 years. During this time, he was also Program Director of the Department of Plastic Surgery Hand Surgery Fellowship, and founder of the University of Pittsburgh Nerve Disorder Center.
His clinical focus is on hand and upper extremity surgery, treating routine and complex injury to the bones, ligaments, tendons, and vessels about the elbow, forearm, wrist, and hand. He also has expertise in the treatment of upper and lower extremity nerve dysfunction, with a specific interest in the treatment of complex peripheral nerve and adult post traumatic brachial plexus injury, using state of the art nerve grafting and nerve transfer techniques.
