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...

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...

A few of our neurosurgeons recently got a chance to teach medical students about the brain in a hands-on human anatomy lab. Dr. Donald O. Quest from the Spine Center headed the lab for medical students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was joined by...

Earlier this week, many of our neurosurgeons got to hear NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell speak at the Annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in Washington, DC. Goodell spoke about...

Once again, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), has convened for their annual meeting. This has taken a large number of our department to Washington, DC this week.  Not only to attend, but to present as well. Our Department Head, Dr. Robert A. Solomon will be bringing his expertise...

Dr. Michael Kaiser and Dr. Sean Lavine tell us they had quite an adventure in Athens, Greece this summer. Following the Society of University Neurosurgeons' meeting, they both vacationed there with their families when riots broke out. BBC news described, “masked protesters - armed with rocks...

“It was horrible. I was opening presents with my children on Christmas day and then I was gone,” says Sheila Uhl. It would be six weeks before Sadie, 6 and Jackson, 8 would see their mom again and by then she had completely changed. “Christmas night I started vomiting non-stop,” says Sheila. “After about three hours I said, ‘Jimmy I think something is really wrong with me...

Seems like only yesterday we announced our three new chief residents and now they are gone. Chief residents Omar N Syed, MD, Robert Morgan Stuart,MD, and Andrew F Ducruet, MD have made it. They graduated and are heading out...