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Dr. Mark Souweidane has been named winner of the 2024 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentorship. This prize, announced and bestowed at the commencement ceremony for the graduating class of Weill Cornell Medical College, recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to supporting colleagues to become academic leaders in clinical...

Dr. Roger Härtl has been recognized as one of the best spine surgeons in the United States by Newsweek magazine. Newsweek partnered with Statista to evaluate physician performance data, certifications, and professional reputation for American spine surgeons in 2024, resulting in the list of the top 150 in the country. Dr. Härtl is the Hansen-MacDonald Professor of...

Last month, endoscopic spine surgery pioneer Dr. Lynn McGrath  spent a week with Dr. Roger Härtl's Tanzania Neurosurgery Project, training local surgeons on the techniques. He led classroom sessions first, followed by hands-on training with high-tech spine models, then took the staff into the OR to perform two surgeries. These were the first-ever endoscopic spine procedures performed in Tanzania, and believed to be the first endoscopic spine procedures performed anywhere in...

The Neurosurgery Outstanding Service Award spotlights members of the department who exemplify our core values. The winner this quarter is practice supervisor Jessica Lee, MHA, who manages clinical operations at our offices at 1305 York Avenue and the 70th Street Starr Pavilion.

Jessica’s colleagues offer high praise, saying she has “gone above and beyond her role.” In times when we have been short-handed, her colleagues say, Jessica covered for surgical coordinators besides her...