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...
By Roberta Marongiu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Molecular Neurosurgery Laboratory, Neurological Surgery
Feil Family Brain and Mind Institute
I fell in love with science when I was a teenager, thanks to a wonderful teacher I had in high school. She taught genetics, chemistry, and astronomy, and she recognized something in me that she encouraged me to pursue. Up until then I thought I...
By Roseann Foley Henry
Director of Special Projects
Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center
This is a tale of two baby girls, both born in 2003. One of them started high school today, the other did not. One child was born near Moscow to a woman who had had no prenatal care and who left the hospital without her baby. The infant was...
As anyone who’s ever been a parent (or teacher, or pediatrician, or coach) can tell you, children are not just little adults – they are fundamentally different creatures in terms of emotional maturity and mental development. As any doctor can tell...
