Dr. Philip Meyers from our Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Centers has made history here at Columbia as the first to use the new Pipeline™ Embolization Device for the treatment of brain aneurysms. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration last April, the Pipeline Device had...

Research is a large part of our mission here at the Department of Neurological Surgery. This is founded on a tradition that goes back to the early days of the Neurological Institute, a hundred years ago. A number of our neurosurgeons carry on this important work today. Their research is largely...

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell has once again been ranked Best Hospital in New York. This is according to U.S.News & World Report's, “America’s Best Hospitals Survey.”  We have also, for the eleventh year in a row, been placed on their Honor Roll as...

Twenty-four teams of neurosurgeons from top medical institutions competed June 4th in Central Park at the 8th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament. Endorsed by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons(AANS) and hosted by Columbia University, the event benefited brain tumor research via the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) of the AANS.

Summer is here and we are once again hosting the Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament. This event is in it’s eighth year and with twenty four teams involved, we should see over five hundred people together in Central Park on June 4th, a day that Mayor Bloomberg has declared,...

This year, US News & World Report again carefully combed through the stats of nearly 5,000 hospitals and 16 specialty areas and came up with a list of 152 of the country's best hospitals. Not only did New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell make that...

Picture a little boy, about ten years old, freckled, with blond hair and high Irish cheeks running toward the neighborhood park. A crowd has gathered and this earnest boy makes his way through. In his left hand he carries a worn blue tackle box. In it is his usual stash of band-aids, ace wraps and antibiotic cream. Someone is hurt and he jumps in to help...

Today we are seeing the integration of medicine and technology like never before and no where is this more true than in a subspecialty of medicine you may never have even heard of called Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology (ESNR). ESNR is formally defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as “a clinical subspecialty for the diagnosis and treatment of neurovascular diseases using x-ray fluoroscopy and angiography.”

We've posted a video of Dr. Solomon, Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, discussing risk factors and treatment for brain aneurysm on Youtube.