About a month ago, we posted that Department Neurosurgeon Dr.Christopher Winfree and Nurse Practitioner Maria Farrow were taking part in CBS's new show, A Gifted Man. We also mentioned they would be in a scene together in an upcoming episode and--that show airs tonight! To recap...

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

Department Neurosurgeon Christopher Winfree and Nurse Practitioner Maria Farrow can be seen this Friday at 8pm on CBS' new show, "A Gifted Man." Maria Farrow is a consultant for the show and says...

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...

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...

Cave diving is spectacular, but it is also risky, and the training is long. Like neurosurgery itself, few are up for the task. Our own Dr. Christopher Winfree from the Pain and Peripheral Nerve Centers is among a very small group of divers who pursue this exotic sport. He says, “People...

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...

A couple of our recent blogs have been about serious brain conditions that were found because of an extreme headache. Of course, most of the time a headache is just a headache and not a sign of impending doom; you can drink a glass of water, take a pain reliever or a nap and you’ll be just fine. ...