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...
By Caitlin Hoffman, MD, and Thomas Imahiyerobo, MD
Our hearts go out to Teddi Mellencamp and her husband, Edwin Arroyave, whose five-month-old daughter, Dove, will soon undergo surgery for lambdoid craniosynostosis. We know how frightening it is to find out your child needs surgery – we are parents...
It was a fifth-grade current events project that first brought the pandemic home for me. My 10-year-old daughter, who attends a Catholic school on the Upper East Side of New York, was writing about an evolving epidemic called coronavirus. It was...
By Theodore Schwartz, MD
David and Ursel Barnes Professor of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Vice Chair of Clinical Research
I was deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Dr. Ronald Brisman, another neurosurgeon lost to Covid-19. Dr. Brisman, like Dr. Jim Goodrich, the pediatric neurosurgeon who recently passed away, was a product of The Neurological Institute...
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
The Covid-19 pandemic claimed another talented neurosurgeon this week with the passing of Dr. Ronald Brisman. Coming so soon on the heels of Dr. Jim Goodrich’s death from the virus, this news was especially hard to hear.
