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...

Our Resident Physician Dr. Raqeeb Haque shined at this year's American Association of Neurological Surgeons‘ (AANS) meeting; He even got his picture in the Program ... twice. First he was spotlighted as the 2009 NREF/Spine and Peripheral Nerves Section Research Fellow for his paper...

Neurosurgery On Fire, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons' (AANS) 78th annual meeting is on and we are there!   So many of our doctors are among the faculty and presenters at this five day event that we have just about lost count. Dr. Christopher Winfree from the Peripheral...

Our Neurosurgery Resident Dr. Raqeeb Haque has been doing great work here at the Department of Neurosurgery.  This year he received a Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) grant for his research in peripheral nerve bypass surgery after spinal cord injury.  He worked on this with...

The patient, “Harry”, was a 77 year old Korean War Veteran who suffered from both pain and numbness on the top and bottom of both his feet. This was caused by nerve damage he had gotten from multiple episodes of frostbite during the war. He had been treated unsuccessfully using physical therapy and a number of pain relieving drugs including ones specifically used for nerve pain.