Vivian Salazar, secretary to Dr. Michael Kaiser in the Spine Center, has joined the Columbia Neurosurgery Team and will be walking with us this May in the American Heart Association's 2011 Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk. Vivian will be walking for her mother. "She has suffered from so...

Judi Thames, Patient Triage Coordinator for our New Jersey Affiliates is getting ready for the American Heart Association's Wall Street Walk/Run. She and her sister Jasmin have joined the Columbia Neurosurgery Team and will walk for health and family. "My late grandmother rebounded well from a...

  Forty Seven of us from the Department of Neurosurgery and our New Jersey Affiliates have rallied and will be joining The American Heart Association for their 2011 Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk this May. Our Columbia Neurosurgery Team is Huge! Check out our team...

Dr. Michael Kaiser from the Spine Center has recruited his family to join him for the American Heart Association's 2011 Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk this May. Here is what he had to say about it...

The American Heart Association's 2011 Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk is less than two months away and the Columbia Neurosurgery Team is growing. We now have twenty seven official team members.  They are; John Collins, Dorothea & David Altschul, Eileen Ivers, Ruth Jaen-Figueroa,...

Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans according to the American Heart Association, and once again they are holding their annual Heart Walk fundraiser to fight this deadly disease. Our Department is joining the fight this year and putting a team together (Columbia Neurosurgery) to...

Please take a moment to read about the outstanding accomplishments of a few of our nurses...

Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM) are a rare but potentially deadly tangle of blood vessels that can form in the brain.  Their cause is not completely understood but for some time now, scientists have suspected that there is a link between these formations and a specific protein called Vascular...