By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
The world of neurosurgery lost a leading light last week when Dr. R. Michael Scott passed away at 82. On a personal level, I lost one of my early partners and mentors in neurosurgery as well as a friend.
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
I was overwhelmed with sorrow when I heard last Friday about the death of my dear friend Jay Loeffler. Jay was an esteemed colleague from my days at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General, but he was so much more than that. He was a true...
By Jeffrey Greenfield, MD, PhD; Rohan Ramakrishna, MD; and Mark Souweidane, MD
For those of us who have dedicated our careers to brain tumor research and treatment, this week’s news about the new drug vorasidenib is gratifying indeed. The results (Vorasidenib in IDH1- or IDH2-Mutant Low-Grade Glioma), published in the New...
By Lisa Miller, PhD, and Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
With the end of the public health emergency, our three-year pandemic is officially (if not completely) over, and we are left to contemplate what’s next. As much as we’d all appreciate a return to normal, we may be better off considering a new normal...
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
It was 22 years ago today – November 1, 2000 – that I became the first chair of the newly formed department of neurosurgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. I suppose I might have been more reflective...
By Srikanth Boddu, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Radiology in Neurological Surgery
Ten years ago, as a neurointerventional fellow at Nottingham University Hospitals in the U.K., I was excited to be part of a team that was performing an innovative new procedure called venous sinus stenting (VSS). It was a minimally invasive...
By Justin Schwarz, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
When you’re the neurosurgeon on night call at a large urban hospital – especially one with a Level 1 Trauma Center – you know that anything can happen. When it’s my turn I can expect a few phone calls from the neurosurgery resident and physician...
By Roger Härtl, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Co-Director of Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian at the Weill Cornell Center for Comprehensive Spine Care
Neurosurgeons by definition have many difficult conversations with their patients. We review scans together and tell them, as gently as we can, that they have a tumor, have had a stroke, or have any one of a number of other conditions that affect...
By H. Allison Bender, PhD, ABPP-CN
and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD
The greatest gymnast of all time may have been grounded by a societal foe she never saw coming – let’s not allow that to happen to our kids
By Srikanth Boddu, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Radiology in Neurological Surgery
Over the past decade I have taken care of hundreds of patients with pulsatile tinnitus. Many of them had serious, and potentially life-threatening, conditions (such as dural arteriovenous fistulas), and others had more benign problems, like a venous...
