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...

We are proud to announce that once again, Columbia Neurosurgery has the most neurosurgeons named Super Doctors in the New York Metro area. The doctors listed for 2011 are...

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...

On the first of the month, New York Presbyterian Hospital premiered their Back-in-Action Webcast. The show featured our Spine Center and it was a huge success. An official at the NY Presbyterian Hospital told us, the program landed in the upper third of pre-taped events that they have launched...

"Ardi" (short for Ardipithecus ramidus) is a fossil of one of our earliest pre-human ancestors. Most likely female, she lived 4.4 million years ago. Over the last several years a team of researchers has studied her remains and finally presented their findings to the world via Science Magazine...