• September 9 - Good News for Baseball's Jorge Posada: No Concussion

    Good news was reported in the New York Daily News; Jorge Posada, catcher for the New York Yankees, has been cleared of a concussion. He was hit in the head by a foul ball on Tuesday night and sources said...

  • August 30 - Young Girl's Charity Delivers Books to Children's Hospital

    Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Center tells us, his patient, thirteen-year-old Grace Ring has outdone herself! This year she delivered over 500 books to the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital...

  • August 23 - Welcome Three New Doctors Onto Our Team!

    We are so pleased to announce that we have added three new neurosurgeons to our team! They are Gaetan Moise, MD, Dorothea Strozyk, MD, and Timothy Link, MD and they will be among our New Jersey Affiliates. Dr. Gaetan Moise joined our Ridgewood New Jersey Office on August first. Dr. Moise has a...

  • April 19 - Historical Perspective: First Surgery Performed at the Neurosurgery Department has Come a Long Way

    Just over one hundred years ago the very first surgery was performed here at Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Neurosurgery.  The surgeon was Dr. Charles Elsberg and he performed the removal of an intramedullary spinal cord tumor. His two step method was pioneering at the time...

  • February 23 - Could There Soon be a Vaccine Against Brain Cancer?

    The answer is YES!  There is exciting news on the horizon for cancer patients.  Dr. Jeffrey N. Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center has announced the start of Phase 2 Clinical Trials for a new vaccine to be used in the battle against brain tumors, specifically high-grade gliomas.  Gliomas are the...