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Weill Cornell Announces New Support Group for Chiari Patients

Dorothy Poppe of the CSF and Dr. Mark Souweidane at Casino Night 2015

January 20, 2016

In partnership with the Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation, the Weill Cornell Chiari CARE program will host a series of lectures and support sessions for individuals with Chiari and related conditions and their families. The two-hour events, which will be held quarterly in 2016, will include presentations from Chiari experts, followed by a facilitated support session for patients and families.

“Chiari patients often have difficult and complicated journeys that eventually bring them...

Weill Cornell Introduces New Chiari CARE Program

January 15, 2016

The Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center has opened a new multidisciplinary program for treating patients with Chiari malformation and related conditions.

December 23, 2015

The trial will be directed by Dr. Athos Patsalides and will test the effectiveness of venous sinus stenting to relieve the symptoms of pulsatile tinnitus in patients with venous sinus stenosis.

December 16, 2015

Dr. McCrea is our fourth neurosurgery resident to pursue a pediatric fellowship at one of the most prestigious children’s hospitals in the country

December 16, 2015

This prestigious award is given each year to neurosurgical residents or fellows for outstanding research on spinal disorders.

December 15, 2015

Dr. Roger Härtl, Dr. Lawrence Bonassar, and their inter-campus spine research team were awarded the Third Place Basic Science Research Paper Award at the annual meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS). The paper, “Total Disc Replacement Using Tissue-Engineered Intervertebral Discs: In Vivo Outcome In A Canine Model,” was authored by Dr. Härtl, Yu Moriguchi, Rodrigo Navarro, Peter Grunert, and Thamina Khair in New York and Dr. Lawrence Bonassar, Jorge Mojica Santiago, and...

December 14, 2015

Peter Morgenstern, M.D., a fifth-year resident in neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, has been awarded the 2015 Kenneth Shulman Award from the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). This award is given each year for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the Joint Section by a resident-in-training. Dr. Morgenstern's winning paper is "Menin: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine...

Dr. Härtl’s Team Wins CSRS Basic Science Research Paper Award

December 4, 2015

Dr. Roger Härtl, Dr. Lawrence Bonassar, and their inter-campus spine research team were awarded the Third Place Basic Science Research Paper Award at the annual meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS). The paper, “Total Disc Replacement Using Tissue-Engineered Intervertebral Discs: In Vivo Outcome in a Canine Model,” was authored by Dr. Härtl, Yu Moriguchi, Rodrigo Navarro, Peter Grunert, and Thamina Khair in New York and Dr. Lawrence Bonassar, Jorge Mojica Santiago, and...

Dr. Patsalides Co-authors Paper Establishing New Standards for Treating Stroke

December 1, 2015

Dr. Athos Patsalides, a member of the Standards and Guidelines Committee of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, has co-authored a paper establishing a new standard of care for patients suffering from acute ischemic stroke with a blockage in a major blood vessel.

The committee, which had been charged with evaluating and summarizing the latest research into endovascular treatments for stroke, looked at the increasingly compelling evidence that embolectomy (the removal of the...

December 1, 2015

Dr. Ning Lin, assistant professor of neurological surgery at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, has been elected to the 2016 board of directors of the Chinese American Medical Society (CAMS). The mission of CAMS is to improve health care for Chinese Americans and to promote education, research, and scholarship with special emphasis on how they affect this population.

Dr. Lin, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, treats patients at both NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens and the...

Weill Cornell Announces New Support Group for Chiari Patients

Weill Cornell Introduces New Chiari CARE Program

FDA Approves New Clinical Trial for Pulsatile Tinnitus

Dr. McCrea Awarded Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship at Boston Children’s

Dr. Pennicooke Wins Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award

Dr. Härtl’s Team Wins CSRS Basic Science Research Paper Award

Dr. Morgenstern Named Winner of 2015 Kenneth Shulman Award

Dr. Härtl’s Team Wins CSRS Basic Science Research Paper Award

Dr. Patsalides Co-authors Paper Establishing New Standards for Treating Stroke

Dr. Ning Lin Elected to 2016 Board of Chinese American Medical Society