Department Chair Dr. Robert Solomon had the pleasure of congratulating a former Columbia Resident on his new Chairmanship...

Among the many presenters and attendees at the 81st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) was our own Dr. Christopher J. Winfree, neurosurgeon and specialist in the management of pain and peripheral nerve disorders. Dr. Winfree arrived in New...

The 81st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is in New Orleans this year and as usual, a large contingency from the Columbia University Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery is in attendance.  Most of our neurosurgeons are...

Like a Lot of kids, eleven-year-old Marco was diagnosed with scoliosis during a routine check-up with his pediatrician. A local pediatric orthopedist measured and confirmed his scoliosis. No one was worried...

Dr. Christopher Kellner [fifth year resident] and I, along with the other residents, have made medical student education a priority during this year," says second year resident Dr. Jonathan Yun...

"I've been trying to organize this event for several years, as many of our members are women and yet almost all of them drop out prior to applying to residency," says McDowell. "Fortunately, this year we finally made it happen and we had the pleasure of having Dr. Mandigo..

Dr. Johnson has been treating patients with a large variety of spinal disorders for nearly twenty years and currently teaches Orthopedics and Therapeutic Exercise related to the spine and extremities...

OCD is a psychiatric disorder that affects many people and can be quite debilitating. All too often, the disease is not effectively treated with medications and other traditional behavioral therapies. For over fifty years, a surgical procedure called a cingulotomy has been performed on the brain in these hard-to-treat cases...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center has joined his colleagues in taking another look at the 2011 SAMMPRIS trial. SAMMPRIS, short for Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for the Prevention of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke, was a large multi-center trial that compared two methods...

Last September, in the Bergen County Special Services School District, a rumor spread that their well-loved social worker and union co-president, Elyse Schifrien, had passed away. Elyse was only 58 years old and in good health. She had been...