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...

In partnership with the Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation, the Weill Cornell Chiari CARE program will host a series of lectures and support sessions for individuals with Chiari and related conditions and their families. The two-hour events, which will be held quarterly in 2016, will include presentations from Chiari experts, followed by a facilitated support session for patients and families.

“Chiari patients often have difficult and complicated journeys that eventually bring them...

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...