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A record 25 faculty members from Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery have been named to the 2024 list of New York SuperDoctors. The list of outstanding physicians, published as a supplement to The New York Times Magazine on May 5, 2024, was assembled based on peer nomination, credentials, and achievement; it is an elite roster of physicians deemed the very best in their fields, including not just neurological surgery but also neuroradiology, neuro-endocrinology, and...

Last month, endoscopic spine surgery pioneer Dr. Lynn McGrath spent a week with Dr. Roger Hartl's Tanzania Neurosurgery Project, training local surgeons on the techniques. He led classroom sessions first, followed by hands-on training with high-tech spine models, then took the staff into the OR to perform two surgeries. These were the first-ever endoscopic spine procedures...

Neurosurgeon Osama Kashlan, MD, MPH, has joined the faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery, and will see patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist. Dr. Kashlan is an award-winning, board-certified neurosurgeon who is fellowship trained in spine surgery. His specialty is minimally invasive spine surgery, including innovative new endoscopic approaches to the spine. He will see patients at clinical offices in downtown Brooklyn, Sunset Park, and...

The faculty members of Weill Cornell Medicine are consistently named to annual lists of Top Doctors, Best Doctors, and Super Doctors. We are honored that so many of our faculty are included on the 2024 Castle Connolly list of America’s Top Doctors, joining 300+ of our Weill Cornell Medicine colleagues from every discipline. Many of these top doctors have been named to this prestigious list for 10, 15, or even 20 years.

The 2024 list of America’s Top Doctors features these...