The 81st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is in New Orleans this year and as usual, a large contingency from the Columbia University Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery is in attendance.  Most of our neurosurgeons are...

 Madison Wells is a bright and energetic young woman. At eighteen, she just graduated from high school, has her first job and is currently attending Southeastern University. She spent last summer hiking, playing tennis, and taking long walks on the beach, and switched to snow boarding and skiing...

We are proud to introduce the first iPad app affiliated with Columbia's Department of Neurosurgery--It's called Neurospiral. The app, which can measure tremors and hand-eye coordination...

Dr. Guy McKhann, Florence Irving Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, spoke at the recent 2012 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in Chicago. His talk was part of a Luncheon Seminar on Strategies to Reduce Risk in Surgical Management of Tumors in Eloquent...

Three of our neurosurgeons, Dr. Michael Sisti, Dr. Guy McKhann and Dr. Anthony D'Ambrosio, had the distinct privilege of taking a three-day course with the great neurosurgeon, Dr. M. Gazi Yasargil...

Dr. Guy McKhann spoke at a Practical Course on Deep Brain Stimulation at the recent 2012 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in Chicago. He was one of several to discuss the implications of clinical trials of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's...

Once again, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) is set to convene for their annual meeting. The five day conference, entitled Our Future is Now, will be held in Chicago, Illinois from October 6-10, 2012 and a large group of physicians from our department will be in attendance. We all...

Every year US News and World Report comes out with a list of the Best Hospitals in the country and once again New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell has not only made the list, but the Honor Roll as well. The Honor Roll makes up only 0.4% of the nearly 5,000...

We are so pleased to let you know that our "Meet the Doctor" videos are all done. Here at Columbia's Department of Neurosurgery we have twenty seven doctors and we now have a wonderful introductory video on each one of them. In these short (3 minutes or so) videos you can see and hear them talk...

Rosanne Cash, Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter and daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash, is featured in a cover story in Neurology Now, the American Academy of Neurology's magazine. Ms. Cash is a patient of Dr. Guy McKhann, neurosurgeon and...