By Philip E. Stieg, Ph.D., M.D.
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
When former president Jimmy Carter was hospitalized this week to treat pressure on his brain from bleeding, it brought to light a common condition that holds a special danger for the elderly. It also brings up the topic of minimally invasive...
By Philip E. Stieg
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
The statistics on Americans with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, are extremely sobering: The CDC has reported that the overall rate of deaths from dementia has more than doubled in less than two decades, especially among the elderly. In...
By Philip E. Stieg, Ph.D., M.D.
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
One of the most important things we’ve learned about the brain recently is that there is not necessarily a great deal of difference between disorders that are clearly organic and those we’ve thought of as psychological illnesses. Brain disorders may...
By Beth Higgins, PA-C
Physician Assistant, Neurosurgery
As a PA in Neurosurgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine, I typically spend my days assisting neurosurgeons in the operating room and taking care of our inpatients before and after surgery. I have been trained in CPR, having taken the...
By Eric Elowitz, MD
Vice Chairman for Quality and Patient Safety
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Spinal Surgery
I’ve dedicated my neurosurgical career to finding newer and less invasive surgical techniques for relieving back pain. Advances in minimally invasive spine surgery have been truly extraordinary over the past 20 years or so, and I’ve been gratified...
Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Chair, Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief ,NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
The entire faculty and staff of Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery mourn the passing of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Paul Greengard, PhD, who died Saturday at age 93. Dr. Greengard was Vincent Astor Professor and head of the...
Dr Kenneth Perrine, PhD, ABPP-CN
Associate Professor of Neuropsychology
When a patient at the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center or Concussion Clinic meets me, it usually means they need testing or consultation about a brain injury. I specialize in neuropsychological testing – not only for patients here but...
Mark M. Souweidane, MD
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian
and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
How do you feel? I can’t tell you how many people have asked me that recently, now that we have published the culmination of years and years of work. Embodied in the results of my Phase I clinical trial are multiple grants, kind donations, unending...
By Jared Knopman, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
One of the most exciting things in neurosurgery – in fact, in medicine in general – is discovering a genuinely different approach to treating a condition. It’s extremely gratifying to find a better way to treat your patients, especially when it...
By Andreas Leidinger, MD
Global Neurosurgery Fellow
Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
It is hard to explain when my passion for Africa was born. I trained as a neurosurgeon at a beautiful hospital in Barcelona, where the standards of “western” medicine is upheld and everything was always available for my patients. During my training...
