• Neurosurgical Residency – University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Medical Center
• General Surgery Internship – University of Southern California– Los Angeles County Medical Center
• Medical School – Georgetown University School of Medicine
• MS with Distinction in Physiology and Biophysics – Georgetown University
• Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude – Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences (Neurobiology and Behavior),

• American Board of Neurological Surgery
• Certified Independent Medical Examiner, American Board of Independent Medical Examiners

• Third Prize for Poster Presentation in Pediatric Category at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• Awarded a position in the Commissioned Officer’s Student Extern Program through the US Public Health Service for Research at NIH
• Parkinson’s Disease Foundation Fellow

• Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
• North American Spine Society (NASS)
• Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS)
• Spinal Intervention Society (SIS)
• Florida Medical Association (FMA)

• Oppenheimer, JH and McDonnell DE: Chapter 19,” Thoracic Pedicle Screw Placement” in: Neurosurgery Tricks of the Trade: Spine and Peripheral Nerve. Thieme Publishing, 2014.
• Oppenheimer JH, DeCastro I, McDonnell DE: Minimally invasive spine
• Technology and minimally invasive spine surgery: a historical review. Neurosurg Focus 27 (3):1-15, 2009]
• Oppenheimer, JH, Levy, ML, Sinha, U, El-Kade, H, Apuzzo, MLJ, Lexton, G, Petrovich, Z, Zee, CS, and Miller, CA: Radionecrosis secondary to interstitial brachytherapy: correlation ofmagnetic resonanceimaging and histopathology. Neurosurgery31 (2):336-343, 1992.
• Giannotta, SL, Oppenheimer, JH, Levy, ML, and Zelman, V: Management of intraoperative rupture of cerebral aneurysms. Neurosurgery 28 (4): 531-536, 1991.
• Giannotta, SL, Oppenheimer, JH, and Levy, ML: Management ofintraoperative rupture of cerebral aneurysms. Proceedings of the Western Neurosurgical Society, In: Neurosurgery 26: 713, 1990(abstr)
• Oppenheimer, JH: The effect of a specific serotonin blocker, methysergide maleate, on the development of kindled seizures in the rat. Senior Thesis, Cornell University, 1979.