June 13, 2013
The post-graduate year 1 residents (PGY-1’s) arrive this month to embark on an intensive seven-year training program to become neurological surgeons and neuroscience researchers, studying under some of the top brain and spine surgeons and researchers in the world today.
June 7, 2013
John Boockvar, M.D., was awarded $100,000 by Voices Against Brain Cancer at last night's 8th Annual Sounding Off for a Cure NY Benefit. The award, which covers the period from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014, is to support Dr. Boockvar's work investigating “Intra-arterial delivery to the glioma stem cell niche.”
June 5, 2013
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief Dr. Philip Stieg was once again honored as a Champion of Heart and Stroke at the 2013 New York City Heart Ball.
June 3, 2013
Emma D. Vartanian, a medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been awarded a prestigious Summer Fellowship from the Saint Baldrick’s Foundation to work in Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield’s research lab this year. Emma will be dedicated to an exciting project focused exclusively on gliomas.
For this research project, Emma will investigate what causes a major difference between low-grade and high-grade...
May 22, 2013
Mark Souweidane, MD, Vice Chairman of the Brain and Spine Center and the director of pediatric neurosurgery, and Zhiping Zhou, PhD, who manages Dr. Souweidane's pediatric neuro-oncology lab, have contributed a chapter to the new book, "Clinical Management and Evolving Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Patients with Brain Tumors."
May 19, 2013
This year’s list includes Neurosurgeon-in-Chief Philip Stieg, M.D., Ph.D.; Vice Chairman and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery Mark Souweidane, M.D.; Vice Chairman for Research and Director of Movement Disorders Michael Kaplitt, M.D., Ph.D.; Chief of Spinal Surgery Roger Hartl, M.D.; and spine surgeon Eric Elowitz, M.D.
May 10, 2013
Theodore Schwartz, M.D., has been named to the editorial board of the Journal of Neurosurgery, the official publication of the American Association of Neurosurgeons (AANS) and considered the leading scholarly journal on neurosurgery in the world.
May 1, 2013
At major medical centers, minimal-access procedures have largely replaced open surgery for pituitary and other skull base tumors. That’s not the case in other countries, however, since not all neurosurgeons have had access to the specialized training required to perform these procedures. That’s changing, in no small part due to the efforts of Dr. Schwartz.
April 17, 2013
CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo will deliver the featured keynote address at Brain Tumor Biotech Summit 2013, speaking on “Innovation in the Changing World Economy.” Bartiromo, who anchors CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” as well as the nationally syndicated "On the Money with Maria Bartiromo," is an award-winning business journalist and author.
Bartiromo, who in 1995 became the first journalist to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock...
April 15, 2013
Offering new hope for back pain sufferers, Dr. Roger Härtl and the multidisciplinary spine team at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center are now recruiting patients for a new clinical trial. The trial will test an investigational medication intended to treat low back pain and disability caused by spinal disc disease.
The injectable medication, named NuQu, is made of cartilage cells and is delivered during a short, one-time treatment. Trial participants will go home within an hour...
