On the heels of his previous work on the Standards of Practice for Ischemic stroke, Dr. Philip Meyers, President-Elect of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS), has co-authored another set of outcome-based standards. Dr. Meyers, representing Columbia University Medical...

The American Heart Association held their International Stroke Conference earlier this month and a number of people from our department were able to attend. Among them were fifth year neurosurgery resident, Christopher Kellner, MD and medical students Michael McDowell, Eric Sussman,...

“About a year ago, I started hearing a churning, like a whooshing noise, in my ears,” says Dan Broden. “At first I actually thought it was in my heart because the noise was in sync with my heartbeat.”...

Dr. Daniel Sahlein from our Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center recently presented research findings on brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVM) risk factors at Columbia University Medical Center/NYP Hospital at Grand Rounds. An arteriovenous malformation is a tangle of blood...

Dr. Robert Solomon, Department Chair and Byron Stookey Professor of Neurosurgery, spoke yesterday, August 9th, 2012 at our Department of Neurosurgery's Grand Rounds...

Dr. Philip Meyers is featured in an article on the New York Presbyterian Hospital News site this month...

Jerry Lesser, MS, RNC, ACRN, Program Director of the Gamma Knife Center, has a terrific Gamma Knife article in the June 2012 issue of InReport, New York Presbyterian Hospital's (NYPH) Nursing Newsletter. The article gives an informed, moment-by-moment account of what a patient might go through...

Dr. Robert Solomon, Department Chair and Byron Stookey Professor of Neurosurgery presented a case study in the New York Presbyterian's "Advances in Neuroscience" newsletter. You can read the short article...

Dr. Daniel H. Sahlein from the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center has had research on the subject of brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The research looks specifically at embolization as a treatment for bAVMs with a focus on...

A number of our surgeons have jointly published an article entitled, Arteriovenous malformation–associated aneurysms in the pediatric population: Clinical article in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. The co-authors from our department included: Richard C. E. Anderson, M.D.; Neil A....