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

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...

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...

All our Docs are back from the 79th annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), held in Colorado earlier this week. Dr. Guy McKhann from the Brain Tumor Center, Epilepsy Center and Movement Disorders Center tells us, "The AANS meeting this year was one of the...

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...

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...

USA Today has reported that because of a new military ruling more soldiers are being diagnosed with concussions than ever before. The ruling...

Language mapping is often used to protect language functions during surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy or brain tumors. Language mapping is done during surgery while the patient is awake and interactive.  This is possible because the brain itself does not have pain receptors. The patient is...