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...
Rohan Ramakrishna, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Part of achieving good outcomes for our patients requires defining what success looks like. For a patient with a brain tumor, success means meeting three criteria. First and foremost, we want to do no harm, so the patient should not be...
Caitlin Hoffman, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
The link between an Antiguan painter and a New York neurosurgeon seems unlikely at best, but life does have a way of making some rather extraordinary connections. I was recently introduced to the work of Frank Walter (1926-2009), whose paintings...
Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article about 17-year-old Kenny Bui, who died in 2015 after his post-concussion return to football. Nobody had done anything wrong, according to concussion protocol – the teen had passed a...
Over the past couple of years there has been an explosion of new data proving the benefits of two things: early intervention for stroke, and mechanical embolectomy using endovascular techniques. We have long known that “time is brain,” but we...
Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
The past few decades have seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of the brain and how it works – new findings about plasticity, for example, have allowed us to revise our expectations about recovery after traumatic injury or stroke — and...
By Roger Härtl, MD
Director of Spine Surgery and Neurotrauma, Weill Cornell Medicine
Director, Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care
Earlier this month I was honored to serve as international faculty for a two-day seminar in Najaf, Iraq, sponsored by AOSpine Middle East. This was my third visit to Iraq for an AOSpine course, but my first time in Najaf. Although these teaching...
As a pediatric neurosurgeon, a large part of my job involves talking with anxious parents about their child’s upcoming surgery, and carrying families through a process they are never truly prepared for. As a parent myself, I cannot imagine how...
