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Dr. Tomasiewicz Wins Distinguished Housestaff Award

December 3, 2018

Hilarie C. Tomasiewicz, MD, PhD, chief resident in neurological surgery, was honored with a 2018 Distinguished Housestaff Award by the NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council Board. The award is presented annually to one member of each department for all-around excellence.

Dr. Tomasiewicz was previously awarded the Christopher Gaposchkin Research Prize in Neurological Surgery for her presentation at the 2017 Resident Research Day. She has also been recognized by the Shining...

Dr. Prajwal Rajappa, Weill Cornell Medicine

November 28, 2018

Dr. Prajwal Rajappa coordinates Dr. Greenfield’s innovative program, in which every pediatric brain tumor patient operated on is offered genomic sequencing and a targeted medicine consultation as part of their standard of care.

November 5, 2018

In late 2017, Dr. Roger Hartl and Dr. Claudius Thome were awarded the American Austrian Foundation’s 2017 Humes Visiting Professorships. The professorships are a bilateral exchange in which two distinguished course directors present at each other’s institutions. Dr. Hartl visited the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria on September 28,2018, to give his lecture. Last week Dr. Thome presented a Grand Rounds guest lecture at Weill Cornell, completing the exchange.

The Humes...

November 2, 2018

The lecture, “Global Neurosurgery: A Neurosurgeon’s Opportunity to Affect World Hope, Communication, and Health,” focused on the extensive programs the neurosurgeons of Weill Cornell Medicine have developed over the past two decades in under-served areas of the world.

Dr. Michael Kaplitt, Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center

October 19, 2018

Dr. Kaplitt spoke on "Focused Ultrasound as a Non-Invasive Mechanism to Improve Dysfunctional Brain Circuits in Neurological Disease."

Chloe Holland, PA-C, Weill Cornell Medicine and NY-Presbyterian

October 11, 2018

Chloe was one of 16 PAs recognized across the hospital system

Graham T. Allison, PhD, has been selected to deliver the Michael L. J. Apuzzo Lecture on Creativity and Innovation

September 20, 2018

Dr. Allison is the author of the 1976 best-seller "Remaking Foreign Policy: The Organizational Connection," and he has served since then as an advisor and analyst on nuclear weapons, terrorism, and political affairs.

Dr. Michael Apuzzo of Weill Cornell Medicine

September 17, 2018

In honor of Dr. Apuzzo, the BAU Class of 2025 in Istanbul will be named the Professor Michael Apuzzo Class. Dr. Apuzzo will travel to Turkey in September 2019 to welcome the incoming Apuzzo Class.

September 15, 2018

Dr. Ramakrishna will use the $50,000 grant to study MRI-guided focused ultrasound for subcortical gliomas.

Dr. Souweidane and Dr. Greenfield - Weill Cornell Medicine

September 10, 2018

The CBTP joins a historic undertaking in pediatric neurosurgery research.

Dr. Tomasiewicz Wins Distinguished Housestaff Award

A Personalized Approach for Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients

Dr. Hartl and Dr. Thome Trade Visits in Hume Visiting Professorship

Dr. Stieg Delivers 2018 Elsberg Lecture

Dr. Kaplitt Delivers Doppman Memorial Lecture at NIH

Neurosurgery PA Chloe Holland Named Physician Assistant Rookie of the Year

Graham T. Allison Selected to Deliver Michael L. J. Apuzzo Lecture on Creativity and Innovation at CNS 2018

The Professor Michael Apuzzo Medical School Class of 2025

Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna Awarded $50,000 Grant from the Glioblastoma Foundation

Children's Brain Tumor Project Participates in Release of Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas