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Dr. Philip Stieg, Weill Cornell Medicine

Professor and Chairman Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD talks with Pat Farnack about treating IIH / pseudotumor cerebri with venous sinus stenting on WCBS 880.

Weill Cornell Medicine chief neurosurgical resident Ibrahim Hussain, M.D.

The world-class spine surgeons of the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center contributed significantly to “Restoring Alignment in an Era of Global Change,” this year’s meeting of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, held this year in Orlando, Florida. Our faculty members played an active part in directing and moving the conversation forward during the conference, at which chief resident Ibrahim Hussain, M.D. was awarded the Charles Kuntz IV...

Dr. Theodore Schwartz, the David and Ursel Barnes Professor of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine
The JNS is among the most respected journals in neurological surgery today
Whitney Parker, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine Neurosurgery
Dr. Parker's research will focus on the role of novel NMDA receptor variants in human brain development and epilepsy.
Dr. Babacar Cisse (right) joined Deputy Manhattan Borough President Matthew Washington and  New York City’s First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker
Babacar Cisse, MD, PhD, spoke to the young audience about the path he took from his childhood in Senegal to his life as a neurosurgeon in New York today.
Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery Residents Selected at Match Day 2018
We welcome Maricruz Rivera and Gary Kocharian, who will be joining our program in June.
Michael Kaplitt
Dr. Kaplitt has been given approval by the Weill Cornell Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB) to start a clinical trial testing the use of focused ultrasound to treat movement problems and medication complications in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Elle Aviv billboard for Weill Cornell Medicine
Elle Aviv, whose successful surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian left her free of pain and back to her active life, is appearing on a billboard promoting Weill Cornell Medicine spine specialists.
Jeffrey P. Greenfield, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Greenfield joins an organization that links cutting-edge research and sequencing to the individual patient, aiming to revolutionize how patients are treated for cancer and other diseases.
Dr. Prajwal Rajappa, Precision Medicine Fellow in Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield’s pediatric brain tumor research lab at Weill Cornell Medicine
The Pediatric Precision Medicine Fellow presented “Precision Sequencing Algorithm for Pediatric Neuro-Oncology”

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