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!...

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

Dr. Michael Sisti just signed on to sponsor a new outreach program called Patient & Family Coffee Break. The program is held once a month for our neurosurgical patients and their families to get together with hospital staff in a comfortable and informal setting...

we have begun putting together mini documentaries on each of our doctors. In these short (3 minutes or so) videos you can see and hear them talk about what they do. We think...

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...

Dr.Paul C. McCormick, head of the Spine Center, will be sworn in as the new President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) this week at the Colorado Convention Center during their 79th Annual Scientific Meeting. In addition to taking on this new mantle, Dr....

Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans according to the American Heart Association, and once again they are holding their annual Heart Walk fundraiser to fight this deadly disease. Our Department is joining the fight this year and putting a team together (Columbia Neurosurgery) to...

This new website of ours has been up for a whole year now and the feedback has been terrific.  We have published over one hundred blog posts and more than two hundred articles in that time.  Our patients have been telling us that they love our new site and enjoy reading the articles. We have...

Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Nursing honored our own Dr. Michael Sisti with a 2010 Attending Physician of the Year Award. The ceremony, now in it's eleventh year, was held at the Milstein Family Heart Center...

Our condolences go out to Marci Faber and her family. She suffered a rare and terrible tragedy described in the recent front page New York Times article A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing. Her story is a reminder to everyone that radiosurgery is serious business.  We here...