March 22, 2013
Danion Jones, a young patient of Dr. Mark Souweidane, is featured in the latest video from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. At age three Danion was near death from a brain tumor, but his mother brought him to Dr. Souweidane at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center. Dr. Souweidane recognized that Danion’s grave condition was not due to his tumor but to infection and was able to help the child recover. With Danion back from the brink, Dr. Souweidane performed a full day of surgery to remove...
March 4, 2013
The Mayfield Award is presented each year to a neurosurgical resident or fellow who authors an outstanding manuscript on laboratory or clinical research in spinal or peripheral nerve disorders.
February 15, 2013
Dr. Theodore Schwartz will lead a two-day course for neurosurgeons in Singapore in March, bringing advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques to local surgeons.
February 11, 2013
"Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: Techniques, Evidence, and Controversies," an AOSpine text co-authored by Dr. Roger Härtl and Dr. Andreas Korge, is now available in print and as an e-book.
February 8, 2013
Dr. John Boockvar has been named by Voices Against Brain Cancer as the winner of the 2013 Gary Lichtenstein Humanitarian Award for his lifetime commitment to finding a cure for malignant brain tumors.
January 28, 2013
“Brain Storm” examines the revolution in neurosurgery over the past two decades, and how that revolution plays out in the day-to-day workings of the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center.
January 15, 2013
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded our Vice Chair for Research a Research Supplement to Promote Diversity.
January 1, 2013
Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield has been awarded $112,000 for two years (from January 2013 to December 31, 2014, by the Starr Cancer Consortium for “Elucidating Mechanisms of Histone H3.3 Mutants-Mediated Oncogenesis in Pediatric Brain Cancers.”
December 21, 2012
This award is given each year for the best paper presented by a resident at the annual meeting of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery.
December 5, 2012
Dr. Athos Patsalides is now enrolling patients in a Phase I research study on spinal metastatic disease (SMD). This new trial will test the safety of a new minimally invasive treatment called spinal intra-arterial chemotherapy (SIAC) in patients with SMD.
As many as 10 percent of cancer patients will develop a metastatic spinal tumor during the course of their disease — metastasis from another cancer is the most common cause of malignant spinal tumors in adults. The most devastating...
