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...

Dr. Jeffrey Bruce has once again been listed in three of Castle Connolly's Top Doctor guidebooks for neurological surgery with expertise in the treatment of brain tumors, meningiomas, pituitary tumors, skull base tumors, pineal tumors, and craniopharyngiomas. This is not his first...

Last month at Grand Rounds, Jennifer Sims, Ph.D., of the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory presented her exciting new research on the deadly tumor, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)...

Dr. Richard Anderson from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center and Dr. Jeffrey Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center have joined forces with a multidisciplinary team* here at Columbia on a novel procedure to treat...

For all of you who were planning to join us for The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA)'s first annual New York City 5K run/walk this Saturday,  November 10, unfortunately due to the storm and severe flooding, the race has been cancelled. This event was special to all of us here committed...

We continued our residency cadaver lab series in late September, focusing on surgical approaches to an area of the brain known as the "skull base". The skull base is a common location of brain tumors and aneurysms, but is also...

On Saturday, October 27 at 12 p.m. Eastern time, Dr. Jeffrey Bruce will be presenting a live webinar entitled, Understanding Clinical Trials, for the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA). This webinar is part of a free web-based educational series offered by the ABTA on topics of interest to...

Nine years ago at the Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), Dr. Jeffrey Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center started the very popular all-day Practical course, Brain Tumor Update. "It is still a very popular course," says Dr. Bruce who last Sunday was part of the...

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...

A very grateful woman, Maria Bonyhay, has posted her story of survival on the Brain Tumor Foundation website this month. Her surgeon was Dr. Jeffrey Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center. In her story, Maria emphasizes the importance of getting a second or even third opinion. After being diagnos...