On Sunday, April 29th, Dr. Richard Anderson and Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center directed a unique practical clinic at the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons...

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...

Like a Lot of kids, eleven-year-old Marco was diagnosed with scoliosis during a routine check-up with his pediatrician. A local pediatric orthopedist measured and confirmed his scoliosis. No one was worried...

Pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Neil Feldstein has once again been named one of America’s Top Doctors for neurological surgery in three of Castle Connolly's guidebooks. Dr. Feldstein is part of our Brain Tumor Center, Epilepsy Center, and Pediatric Neurosurgery Center and is nationally...

Dr. Neil Feldstein was an invited speaker at the 36th annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN), held last month in Hawaii. Dr. Feldstein was one of the first neurosurgeons to speak during the meeting's five-day Scientific Program. His talk was titled, "Chiari I...

 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...

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 the fifth year in a row Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center has been given a Patients' Choice Award. He is among only 5 percent of the nation's 870,000 active physicians,who were accorded this honor by their patients in 2012. Dr. Feldstein was specifically...

“I don't remember really ever wanting to do anything other than medicine and specifically neurosurgery,” says Neil A. Feldstein, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Director of Pediatric Neurological Surgery at Columbia University. “Way back when others wanted to...

“For the rest of my life I will never forget the words that Dr. Anderson first said when I sat in his office reviewing my daughter’s medical records, ‘This is a solvable problem.’” Tracee’s seven year old daughter Paige had been diagnosed with a Chiari Malformation 1 (CM1) and Syringomyelia. “When I left his office that night I slept for the first time in weeks...