Dr. Ning Lin, assistant professor of neurological surgery at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, has been elected to the 2016 board of directors of the Chinese American Medical Society (CAMS). The mission of CAMS is to improve health care for Chinese Americans and to promote education, research, and scholarship with special emphasis on how they affect this population.
Dr. Lin, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, treats patients at both NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens and the main campus of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on the upper east side. He brings a unique combination of neurosurgical and endovascular experience in treating a wide range of vascular diseases of the brain and spine, with special expertise in the treatment of cerebrovascular disorders including aneurysms, AVMs, carotid stenosis, cavernous malformations, Moyamoya disease, intracranial atherosclerotic disease, and intracranial hemorrhage. He also specializes in the treatment of brain and spinal tumors, pituitary tumors, and Chiari malformations.
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