Dr. Sahlein specializes in the endovascular treatment of intracranial, skull base/neck, and spinal vascular disease using advanced minimally invasive, image-guided technologies.  Particular areas of interest include intracranial aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations, and dural arteriovenous...

The new state-of-the-art Gamma Knife Perfexion System is in place and our radio surgery program is back in full swing. "We have had a great start...

This month, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons held their 39th annual joint meeting of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section and our department presented two papers. One was authored by Dr. Paul Gigante, Dr. Neil Feldstein, and Dr. Richard...

For Steve Hartler, 2009 was not shaping up to be a very good year. At 48, he had just filed for bankruptcy leaving himself and more than 60 employees out of work, and with the economy in the tank, no prospects on the horizon. To make matters worse, Steve had just woken up with no feeling on the left side of his body....

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...

Dr. Sean Lavine was one of the distinguished faculty for the Codman Senior Fellow's Course recently held in Chicago, where he gave state-of-the-art instruction in the treatment of AVMs...

One evening, eight years ago, Dan Ricci came home to find ice cream melting on the counter and his wife passed out on the floor of their bathroom. His wife Nicole says, that afternoon, "out of the clear blue sky, I got the worst headache of my life." What she didn't know then, was that she was very close to losing her life...

Dr. Michael Sisti from the Gamma Knife Center tells us a multi-million dollar up-grade is coming to his Center this Summer. They will be upgrading to a new state-of-the-art (5 million dollar plus) machine called the Gamma Knife Perfexion System...

Today we are seeing the integration of medicine and technology like never before and no where is this more true than in a subspecialty of medicine you may never have even heard of called Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology (ESNR). ESNR is formally defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as “a clinical subspecialty for the diagnosis and treatment of neurovascular diseases using x-ray fluoroscopy and angiography.”

Drs. Robert Solomon and Sean Lavine perform the first vascular neurosurgical operation in the new Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center last month.  The procedure was done in the hybrid open surgical and fully...