[3] He pursued graduate studies in neuroanatomy and neuroscience at Albany Medical College, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1980.

[1] Stieg was a resident in general surgery and neurosurgery at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School and Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Thereafter, he did a fellowship in cell transplantation for restorative neurological function at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

[1] He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in the medical literature[9] and has co-edited a textbook titled Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations.

In 2020, Dr Stieg was named the first Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery.