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.
By Ibrahim Hussain, MD
Neurosurgical Resident
I began my seven-year neurosurgical training program in 2013, so by March of 2020 I was just about done — then the pandemic changed everything. NewYork-Presbyterian is the top-rated hospital in the city and one of the best in the country, and the...
By Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, PhD, and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD
In last week’s blog post (Information Overload), our chairman, Dr. Philip E. Stieg, wrote about how difficult it is to process the amount of information coming at us every day right now. The barrage of information, combined with high levels of...
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 human brain is not wired for this. Our twenty-first century lives had already taken us far away from what our brains evolved to do – but now, in the middle of a pandemic, we are in over our heads.
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD, and Mark Souweidane, MD
The pandemic came very close to home to us today when we learned that the novel coronavirus had claimed the life of Dr. James Goodrich, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the...
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
These are unprecedented times, and we are facing unimaginable challenges. Those on the front lines of the pandemic – the health care heroes who are saving lives every day, and losing that fight for far too many patients – are enduring unthinkable...
By Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, PhD, and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD
Cognitive remediation after any kind of brain injury — whether from trauma, stroke, surgery, or other event — has been shown to be valuable in helping patients regain function.
By Dr. Beverly Cheserem, BM (hons), FRCS Neurosurgery
Global Neurosurgery Fellow, Tanzania
I came across the Weill Cornell Medicine Global Health Neurosurgery Fellowship by pure chance one evening last year in London, when I typed “global neurosurgery” into a search engine. I emailed Dr. Härtl immediately, attaching my CV and asking about...
