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...
By Michael Kaplitt, MD, PhD, and Mark Souweidane, MD
It is immensely gratifying to be a neurosurgeon, but also very humbling. Having the ability to heal is awesome in the most literal sense of that word – the ability to use our hands to restore someone to health is a great gift, which we have learned...
By Philip E. Stieg
Chairman and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
Working in a hospital, you get accustomed to all the standard health precautions that are taken every day (hand hygiene, surgical masks) and every year (TB test, flu shot). Most of the time I don’t think about these steps except to make time for...
By Philip E. Stieg
Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
I recently received an effusive thank you note from a woman I’ve never met, and whose surgery I did not perform. She lives on the other side of the country, and she had been in terrible pain for a year from a condition called glossopharyngeal...
By Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, PhD, and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD
Use the same strategies neuropsychologists teach their patients to help yourself through the confusion of the pandemic. In our practice within neurological surgery, we often see patients whose conditions led to a weakness in the cognitive domain...
How do we keep vital investigations going even when labs were shut? That was the question on the mind of researchers everywhere in March as they prepared to suspend operations. Roberta Marongiu, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience in Dr.
Carolina Cocito, PhD, the Ty Louis Campbell Research Fellow in the Children’s Brain Tumor Project laboratory, who studies the role of the immune system in the progression of invasive brain tumors, shared her story about how the project’s important...
