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Dr. Mark Souweidane (far left) and the PICU staff congratulate Dr. Benjamin Rapoport on his award

Third-year neurosurgery resident Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD, was selected as the Resident of the Month and honored for exemplifying both the hospital motto, “We Put Patients First,” and the NewYork-Presbyterian Values: Respect, Teamwork, Excellence, Empathy, Innovation, and Responsibility.

Dr. Rapoport was nominated for the award by the staff of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, including Dr. Sondra Maureen Nemetski; Dr. Doreen Hsing; Erin Kelly, PA; Dr. Kalgi Modi; and Dr. Jenna...

Children's Brain Tumor Project
With grants and gifts from families and foundations, the CBTP will fill the lab with an impressive array of medical students and fellows conducting research at an amazing pace.
The Samuel Jeffers Childhood Cancer Foundation will fund a summer fellow for thalamic glioma research.

The Samuel Jeffers Childhood Cancer Foundation has donated $5,000 to the Children’s Brain Tumor Project (CBTP) to fund a dedicated summer fellow for thalamic glioma research. The fellow will focus on assembling a thalamic glioma tissue repository here at Weill Cornell to provide researchers with tumor samples to study.

“Thalamic gliomas have not previously been studied as a separate disease entity,” says Dr. Mark Souweidane, co-director of the Children’s Brain Tumor Project. “But they...

Weill Cornell Medical Student Christopher Marnell
The first-year med student will work with Dr. Souweidane on his clinical trial using CED against DIPG
Brenton Pennicooke, MD
The fourth-year resident won Best Oral Presentation for “Annular Repair Using High-density Collagen Gel with Riboflavin Crosslinkage: Preliminary results in an in vivo ovine model”
Dr. Mark Souweidane and Dr. Theodore Schwartz in Cairo

Dr. Theodore Schwartz and Dr. Mark Souweidane recently presented at the Second Annual International Congress of the Neurosurgery Department of Ain Shams University (AINAS II) in Cairo. The international meeting, which was organized by the university in collaboration with the Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgery (ESNS), brought together experts from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Germany, South Korea, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States to bring advanced endoscopic neurosurgical...

Dr. Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez (left) receives the award for Best Basic Research Oral Presentation from Dr. Michael Fehlings, president of AO Spine North America
The fellow won for his abstract on biological disc replacement in a canine model
Raymond Chang and Emilie George, the 2016 St. Baldrick's Summer Fellows
Emilie George and Raymond Chang will test new drugs against gliomatosis cerebri and DIPG.
Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna will direct the Toca 5 clinical trial for brain tumors at Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center
Dr. Rohan Ramakrisha will be spearheading this new trial testing retroviral replicating vectors against recurrent glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma
Dr. Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez, Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center

Dr. Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez, a research fellow on Dr. Roger Härtl’s team, has been invited to present his abstract, “Total disc replacement using tissue-engineered intervertebral discs: In vivo outcome in a canine model,” at the 2016 meeting of the AOSpine North America (AOSNA) Fellows Forum. The forum, Advancing Spine Care Worldwide, will be held in Banff Springs, Alberta, from March 31 to April 1, 2016.  The AOSNA Fellowship Committee scores each abstract submitted, and the 10 highest...

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