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...

Dr. Philip Meyers from our Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Centers has made history here at Columbia as the first to use the new Pipeline™ Embolization Device for the treatment of brain aneurysms. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration last April, the Pipeline Device had...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center has returned from Chicago, where he spoke at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA). With nearly 80,000 attendees from around the globe, this meeting is one of the largest medical conference held in the United...

A team of our doctors has published an interesting case study in the journal, Surgical Neurology International. The article is entitled, Medial lenticulostriate artery aneurysm presenting...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center spoke to Residents about Endovascular Options for the Incompletely Treated Aneurysm...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center re-visited the question, 'Aneurysm: To Clip or Coil?' yesterday as a Grand Rounds co-presenter here at Columbia. This continues to be a great topic for discussion in neurosurgery today. Read more on the subject in our...

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...

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...

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...