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...

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...

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...

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...

The Valley Hospital’s annual Golf Outing was held under sunny skies this past Monday at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ. There were 184 golfers who enjoyed lunch on the patio, a wonderful day of golf, putting and pink ball contests, and a silent auction during cocktails and dinner...