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Fourth-Year Resident Heather H. McCrea, MD, PhD, Awarded 2012-2013 NREF Research Grant

June 1, 2012

Dr. McCrea's study is titled "The Role of Angiocrine Expression of Notch Ligands in Glioma Progression."

6 Weill Cornell Neurosurgeons Named 2012 Top Doctors

June 1, 2012

Six neurosurgeons from the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center have been named to the Castle Connolly list of Top Doctors for the New York metro area.

Dr. Greenfield Awarded Grant for Research on How Low-Grade Pediatric Tumors Transform Into Malignancies

May 1, 2012

Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Matthew Larson Foundation to support his research into how low-grade tumors are transformed into high-grade gliomas through the involvement of bone-marrow-derived cells (BMDCs). Read more about Dr. Greenfield's research.

April 13, 2012

Dr. Kaplitt appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss exciting results reported regarding gene therapy for Parkinson's disease. Dr. Kaplitt, who pioneered testing gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, talks about how gratifying it is to see real-world results emerge from his initial testing.

Dr. Theodore Schwartz signs a copy of his book for someone at the forum

April 1, 2012

Theodore H. Schwartz, MD, director of the Pituitary and Anterior Skull Base Surgery Program at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, recently spent four days in Shanghai, helping Chinese neurosurgeons develop their skills in minimally invasive endoscopic surgery.

Dr. Schwartz was the honored guest at the “First International Forum on Skull Base Trauma and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and First Workshop on Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery” at the Neurosurgical Department of...

April 1, 2012

In the spring 2012 issue of Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield talks about his patient Connor Ventura, and about diagnosing, treating, and seeking new options for Chiari malformation.

New Jersey high school sophomore Connor Ventura was playing in a soccer showcase in Phoenix in December 2009 when he experienced severe dizziness, headache, and near-delirium. He decided to play through it; after all, this was his shot at impressing the Division I college...

Dr. Mark Souweidane, Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center

January 15, 2012

Dr. Mark Souweidane, Director of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, has received FDA approval for a clinical trial for young patients diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG).

Six Weill Cornell Neurosurgeons Named as U.S. News Top Doctors

July 4, 2011

We're proud to have six of our neurosurgeons on this first edition of the magazine's list of top doctors.

Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz and Dr. A. Gabriella Wernicke Achieve Breakthrough Use of Cesium-131 for Intracavitary Brachytherapy in Malignant Brain Tumor

June 1, 2011

Intracavitary brachytherapy is a minimally invasive technique used to line a surgical cavity with radioactive seeds — cancer-fighting radioisotopes encased in capsules the size of a rice grain — after removal of malignant disease. This procedure delivers high-dose radiation to the tumor cavity margin to prevent recurrence of microscopic disease in patients with malignant brain tumors.

Dr. Schwartz and Dr. A. Gabriella Wernicke from the Department of Radiation...

Dr. Jared Knopman, Dr. Ronald Scheff, and Dr. John Boockvar

November 13, 2009

Two neurosurgeons at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center are pioneering an exciting new approach for the treatment of recurrent malignant brain tumors. As reported in this New York Times article published on November 17, 2009, their novel approach to treating these resistant brain tumors is yielding successful results. Follow-up MRI imaging on the treated patients has shown that their tumors have shown a...

Fourth-Year Resident Heather H. McCrea, MD, PhD, Awarded 2012-2013 NREF Research Grant

6 Weill Cornell Neurosurgeons Named 2012 Top Doctors

Dr. Greenfield Awarded Grant for Research on How Low-Grade Pediatric Tumors Transform Into Malignancies

Dr. Kaplitt Discusses Gene Therapy for Parkinson's Disease on CBS This Morning

Dr. Schwartz Brings Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery to China

Brainstorm: A comeback after Chiari surgery

Milestone Clinical Trial for DIPG Approved

Six Weill Cornell Neurosurgeons Named as U.S. News Top Doctors

Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz and Dr. A. Gabriella Wernicke Achieve Breakthrough Use of Cesium-131 for Intracavitary Brachytherapy in Malignant Brain Tumor

Novel Superselective Intra-arterial Cerebral Approach Using Avastin Yields Successful Results