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Dr. McGrath Performs First Endoscopic Spine Surgery in Tanzania

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...

John Rivera and Dr. Mark Souweidane join host Antwan Lewis on Street Talk

John Rivera, founder of the Cristian Rivera Foundation, and Dr. Mark Souweidane were recently invited to appear on Good Day Street Talk with Antwan Lewis, to talk about DIPG, research that is creating hope for families, and the bossy little boy whose life was claimed far too soon.

Watch Dr. Souweidane and John Rivera on Good Day New York Street Talk

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Jessica Lee and Dr. Philip Stieg

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...

Osama Kashlan, MD, MPH, Weill Cornell Medicine Neurosurgery

Neurosurgeon Osama Kashlan, MD, MPH, has joined the faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery, and will see patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist. Dr. Kashlan is an award-winning, board-certified neurosurgeon who is fellowship trained in spine surgery. His specialty is minimally invasive spine surgery, including innovative new endoscopic approaches to the spine. He will see patients at clinical offices in downtown Brooklyn, Sunset Park, and...

Physician assistant Kaitlyn Twomey, left, joins Dr. Judy Ch’ang, medical director of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit on 2South, in welcoming the new portable MRI scanner.

A portable MRI scanner is now up and running in the neuro ICU at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the first of its kind available to patients in New York City. The portable unit allows our team to perform scans right at a patient’s bedside, without having to schedule time in imaging or losing time precious time in transport. In just its first two weeks of operation, the machine has helped in the diagnosis and management of several seriously ill patients,...

Top Doctors in Neurosurgery 2024

The faculty members of Weill Cornell Medicine are consistently named to annual lists of Top Doctors, Best Doctors, and Super Doctors. We are honored that so many of our faculty are included on the 2024 Castle Connolly list of America’s Top Doctors, joining 300+ of our Weill Cornell Medicine colleagues from every discipline. Many of these top doctors have been named to this prestigious list for 10, 15, or even 20 years.

The 2024 list of America’s Top Doctors features these...

Elaine M. Regacho

The Neurosurgery Outstanding Service Award spotlights members of the department who exemplify the department's core values. The winner for Q3 2023 is Elaine M. Regacho, nurse practitioner who works with Dr. Philip Stieg and his patients.

“Elaine is an unfailingly professional, compassionate, and caring nurse practitioner,” says Dr. Stieg. “The attention she provides is a big part of why our patients report feeling so well cared for...

Dr Stieg, Dr. Park, Dr. Salama, and Dr. Min

Gayle Salama, MD, and John Park, MD, PhD, have been named co-directors of the new CSF Leak Program at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Salama is a neuroradiologist and Director of Spine Imaging and Interventions; she specializes in the advanced imaging required to diagnose and locate a CSF leak. Dr Park is a neurological surgeon with expertise in ...

Katie Chrunyk Named PA Mentor of the Year

Katie Chrunyk was recently selected as the PA Mentor of the Year in neuroscience by the Department of Physician Assistant Services at NewYork-Presbyterian. The awards, given each year to honor outstanding PAs on each campus of the health system, recognize excellence in the profession and a stellar commitment to patient care. Katie, who was honored earlier this year as Neurology PA of the Year for her outstanding work with our hospitalized patients, was selected from among 350 PAs...

A Top Hospital Neurosurgery in the World, #1 in NY, Third Year in a Row!

Since Newsweek and Statista started ranking specialized hospitals in 2021, the neurosurgery service at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University has been at the top of the list. When the 2024 lists came out earlier this month, it was a hat trick – for the third year in a row we are the #1 hospital for neurosurgery in New York, and one of the very best in the world. (Yes, in the world.)

“We are of course proud to be...

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