After a rigorous selection process, another round of Columbia University Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery doctors have been added to Castle Connolly's list of Top Doctors in the New York Metro area: Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Bruce, Dr. Neil Feldstein, Dr. Robert Goodman, Dr. Steven...

Editors of the journal Neurosurgery have chosen to feature the Department of Neurosurgery in their Legacy series.  The article, The Centennial of the Neurological Institute of New York and Its Department of Neurological Surgery, 1909-2009: A Commemorative Pictorial Essay was written by Donald...

Dr. Peter Canoll, a long time collaborator with the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory has just received a $1.8 million grant  for his research "The Role of White Matter Progenitors in Glioma Formation and Progression."  This grant comes from the National Institute of Neurological Disorters and...

The 2009 patient reviews have been totaled and our popular Dr. Neil A. Feldstein, Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center, has been selected as a Parent Favorite with the Patients' Choice Award for the 2nd year in a row! Every month, over 40,000 patients rate the effectiveness of their...

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...

This month the Congress of Neurological Surgeons'(CNS)  University of Neurosurgery has chosen Dr. E. Sander Connolly from the Cerebrovascular Center as their "expert faculty."  All month, they are exploring the vascular subspecialty and on the 16th, Dr. Connolly taught a webinar course in...

Our Neurosurgery Resident Dr. Raqeeb Haque has been doing great work here at the Department of Neurosurgery.  This year he received a Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) grant for his research in peripheral nerve bypass surgery after spinal cord injury.  He worked on this with...

In addition to his role as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Society for NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), Dr. Philip Meyers, of the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center, is the Annual Meeting Chairman of the SNIS 2010 Annual Meeting in La Costa, California this July 26th...

Bill Clinton is reportedly recovering well after an angioplasty and stent placement yesterday for a clogged artery to his heart.  Dr. Sean D. Lavine from the Endovascular Center says, this same kind of procedure is done when people get narrowing in arteries in the blood vessels that supply the...

At the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section meeting held in December,  Dr. Richard Anderson and Dr. Neil Feldstein from our Pediatric Neurosurgery Center co-authored a study that  compared surgical techniques for the treatment of Middle Fossa Arachnoid Cysts (MFAC).  They looked at patients after...