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...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular and Cerebrovascular Centers was an invited speaker at two conferences held in Honolulu, Hawaii last month. Held just days apart, the two conferences were: the 3rd SNIS International Endovascular Stroke Conference and Joint Cerebrovascular Section Annual Meet...

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. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center was one of just a few invited speakers from the United States to present at Neurovascon 2012, the 12th Annual conference of the Indian Society of Cerebrovascular Surgery (ISCVS), in Mumbai, India...

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

Dr. Philip Meyers from our Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center has just returned from San Diego where he lectured at the 9th Annual Meeting and 3rd Annual Fellows Course of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS). SNIS is a multi-disciplinary society of...

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...