In 1998, Dr. Michael B. Sisti and Dr. Steven R. Isaacson opened our Gamma Knife Center with nurses Nenita Magpantay-Nadera and Jeraldine Lesser. Thirteen years later, we are proud to say, the same team is still here!...

Illinois' Freshman Senator Mark Kirk is recovering from surgery after he suffered a stroke this weekend. Though he was not treated here at Columbia, Dr. E. Sander Connolly from the Cerebrovascular Center regularly sees patients in his condition and gave us some insight into the problem and its treatment...

SAMMPRIS (Stenting vs. Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis), a large NIH funded trial comparing two methods of stroke prevention was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 2011; 365: 993-1003). This particular study showed that medical therapy was...

About a month ago, we posted that Department Neurosurgeon Dr.Christopher Winfree and Nurse Practitioner Maria Farrow were taking part in CBS's new show, A Gifted Man. We also mentioned they would be in a scene together in an upcoming episode and--that show airs tonight! To recap...

Surgeons have been talking about how to treat brain aneurysms for over 250 years and though technology and medical knowledge have advanced them to a whole new level, they are still at it. The discussion today centers primarily around two specific treatments; endovascular coiling and surgical clipping. This is what Department Chair, Dr. Robert Solomon and his colleagues...

More than 90 members of our staff attended our Holiday party this year at Dylan Prime restaurant in New York City. Everyone enjoyed the

Early last week we were honored with a visit from a group of neurology and neurosurgery colleagues from Korea. They were on a tour of the United States and Canada’s leading neurological institutes in preparation for opening Korea's first...

The annual Pool Symposium was held once again here at Columbia and the theme this year was pediatric neurosurgery. Dr. Neil A. Feldstein, Dr. Richard Anderson, and Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center were all there and each presented in their areas of expertise. Dr. Feldstein spoke about...

Department Neurosurgeon Christopher Winfree and Nurse Practitioner Maria Farrow can be seen this Friday at 8pm on CBS' new show, "A Gifted Man." Maria Farrow is a consultant for the show and says...

Dr. Evan Johnson, Physical Therapist at the Spine Center  recently attended the 2011 annual meeting of the North American Spine Society. There he got to help test participants' balance and grip strength. The tests were part of an interactive display developed by the NASS Exercise Committee to...