November 8, 2013
Dr. Theodore Schwartz has been presented with the 2013 Gentle Giant Award by the Pituitary Network Association for outstanding commitment to pituitary medicine, patient care, and education.
October 24, 2013
The Weill Cornell Pediatric Brain and Spine Center is now enrolling young patients in a new clinical trial testing intra-arterial infusion of chemotherapy drugs in children with certain recurrent brain tumors, including DIPG
October 18, 2013
A new study co-authored by Dr. Roger Härtl shows that patients who suffer a severe traumatic brain injury do better when their caregivers follow established guidelines for managing the injury.
September 30, 2013
Dr. Mark Souweidane appeared in a segment about his research into diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). Watch the video clip.
September 23, 2013
Dr. Mark Souweidane, Vice Chairman of the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center and Director of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, will be honored next Monday night, September 30, with the 2013 Cristian Rivera Foundation Vision of Hope Award. The award will be presented at the fifth annual Cristian Rivera Foundation Celebrity Gala.
Cristian was just 6 years old when he lost his battle with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, in 2009. Cristian’s parents started the Cristian Rivera...
September 6, 2013
Yujie Huang, PhD, has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Department of Defense for a research project investigating how children’s brain tumors progress. Dr. Huang, who works in Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield's pediatric neuro-oncology laboratory, will be working on “Characterizing and Targeting Bone Marrow-Derived Inflammatory Cells in Driving the Malignancy and Progression of Childhood Astrocytic Brain Tumors.”
August 30, 2013
Dr. Peter Grunert, spine fellow, was recently awarded the first-place award for best basic science abstract and presentation at the annual meeting of the Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Society (MINS).
August 30, 2013
Tickets are now available for a five-session course, “Neuroscience of Sports: Your Brain in Action,” to be presented at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday evenings at 6 pm starting September 16, 2013.
July 30, 2013
Dr. Philip E. Stieg, Chairman of the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has announced that Amanda L. Sacks, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, has been appointed to the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Sacks is a neuropsychologist who specializes in cognitive remediation for deficits caused by traumatic brain injury; brain tumors and cranial surgery; chemotherapy and radiation; and stroke and other cerebrovascular...
July 22, 2013
Dr. Philip Stieg, director of the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center and neurosurgeon-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has announced the opening of new clinical location in lower Manhattan. The new facility is located at 156 William Street, on the 11th floor, convenient to all of downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn.
