The 81st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is in New Orleans this year and as usual, a large contingency from the Columbia University Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery is in attendance.  Most of our neurosurgeons are...

Three of our neurosurgeons, Dr. Michael Sisti, Dr. Guy McKhann and Dr. Anthony D'Ambrosio, had the distinct privilege of taking a three-day course with the great neurosurgeon, Dr. M. Gazi Yasargil...

We continued our residency cadaver lab series in late September, focusing on surgical approaches to an area of the brain known as the "skull base". The skull base is a common location of brain tumors and aneurysms, but is also...

In addition to all the other work he does, Dr. Jeffrey N. Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center has been extra busy writing these days.  He and his colleagues just finished a chapter on Skull Based Tumors for WebMD's eMedicine Neurosurgery Book.  About which he says, "Basic surgical approaches to...

Dr. Solomon has specialized in the surgical treatment of cerebrovascular diseases since 1986, and has operated on more cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations than any surgeon in the tri-state area.  His special interests are in the identification and definitive treatment of cerebral...