In the News

Dr. Roberta Marongiu of Dr. Kaplitt's lab was recently featured on Fox 5 News for an innovative boxing program she helped develop for individuals with Parkinson's disease. Watch the video below:

This week’s issue of New York magazine features the annual listing of “Best Doctors in New York,” and the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center is once again proud to have eight members of our team included on the list. This prestigious roster includes Dr. Philip E. Stieg, chairman of the department of neurosurgery and neurosurgeon-in-chief;...

Third-year neurosurgery resident Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD, was selected as the Resident of the Month and honored for exemplifying both the hospital motto, “We Put Patients First,” and the NewYork-Presbyterian Values: Respect, Teamwork, Excellence, Empathy, Innovation, and Responsibility.

Dr. Rapoport was nominated for the award by the staff of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, including Dr. Sondra Maureen Nemetski; Dr. Doreen Hsing; Erin Kelly, PA; Dr. Kalgi Modi; and Dr. Jenna...

The Samuel Jeffers Childhood Cancer Foundation has donated $5,000 to the Children’s Brain Tumor Project (CBTP) to fund a dedicated summer fellow for thalamic glioma research. The fellow will focus on assembling a thalamic glioma tissue repository here at Weill Cornell to provide researchers with tumor samples to study.

“Thalamic gliomas have not previously been studied as a separate disease entity,” says Dr. Mark Souweidane, co-director of the Children’s Brain Tumor Project. “But they...