Columbia University Medical Center has sent out a press release, For Stroke Prevention, Large 
Medical Centers May Have the Edge, where they announced the results of research done here at the Department of Neurosurgery. They interviewed Department Chairman Dr. Robert Solomon about the research and his comments appear in the article...

Surgeons have been talking about how to treat brain aneurysms for over 250 years and though technology and medical knowledge have advanced them to a whole new level, they are still at it. The discussion today centers primarily around two specific treatments; endovascular coiling and surgical clipping. This is what Department Chair, Dr. Robert Solomon and his colleagues...

Endovascular specialists, Dr. Dorothea Altschul and Dr. Philip Meyers served as moderators at the Advanced Interventional Management (AIM) Symposium in NYC recently. The AIM symposium is an international meeting that...

Dr. Sahlein specializes in the endovascular treatment of intracranial, skull base/neck, and spinal vascular disease using advanced minimally invasive, image-guided technologies.  Particular areas of interest include intracranial aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations, and dural arteriovenous...

We have just been told that Department Chair, Dr. Robert Solomon has one of the number-one-watched videos on the New York Presbyterian Hospital website. His video, Brain Aneurysms: Risk Factors & Treatments is first of hundreds on the site. Check out the video and see what all the fuss is...

This month, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons held their 39th annual joint meeting of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section and our department presented two papers. One was authored by Dr. Paul Gigante, Dr. Neil Feldstein, and Dr. Richard...

Department Chair Dr. Robert Solomon directed a special program on stroke management earlier this month at the new state-of-the-art Education and Conference Center at the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center. The program, entitled Current Management of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic...

Dr. Sean D. Lavine from the Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Centers spoke at the 2010 Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in San Francisco last month. He gave his presentation, Aneurysm Therapy: From Suture to Stents, at the Cerebrovascular Surgery Section meeting. He...

Department Chair, Dr. Robert Solomon joined his colleagues in San Francisco at the  Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). This year, he moderated a seminar on Management Strategies for Unruptured Aneurysms.  His course covered,"the epidemiology and natural history...

Dr. Robert Solomon spoke at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (AAcNS) held earlier this month. Bruce and Quest also elected Officers...