Jerry Lesser, MS, RNC, ACRN, Program Director of the Gamma Knife Center, has a terrific Gamma Knife article in the June 2012 issue of InReport, New York Presbyterian Hospital's (NYPH) Nursing Newsletter. The article gives an informed, moment-by-moment account of what a patient might go through...

On Wednesday this week, the folks at the Gamma Knife Center tell us they treated their 3500th patient. Dr. Michael B. Sisti and Dr. Steven R. Isaacson with nurse Jeraldine Lesser saw their first...

“I had the first pains in my head two days after my sophomore year of high school ended.” says Jennifer Hanichak Farrell. The year was 1994 and the sixteen year old Indiana cheerleader had no idea just how serious those headaches were. Jennifer’s local doctor looked her over and couldn't...

In 1998, Dr. Michael B. Sisti and Dr. Steven R. Isaacson opened our Gamma Knife Center with nurses Nenita Magpantay-Nadera and Jeraldine Lesser. Thirteen years later, we are proud to say, the same team is still here!...

At a recent Grand Rounds, here at Columbia, Dr. Steven Isaacson from the Gamma Knife Center spoke about one of the deadliest kinds of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). His talk, GBM:A Story of Frustration and Hope, outlined the latest in treatment strategies including issues such...

Stereotactic Radiosurgery is a precise form of therapeutic radiology that uses intense doses of radiation without a surgical incision or opening. It is called “surgery” because a result similar to an actual surgical procedure is created by the radiation therapy treatment. The beams of...

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...

Our condolences go out to Marci Faber and her family. She suffered a rare and terrible tragedy described in the recent front page New York Times article A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing. Her story is a reminder to everyone that radiosurgery is serious business.  We here...

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...

The thirteenth annual New York Magazine Best Doctors List has arrived and we made it. Four of our doctors are listed in the areas of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery.  That is the most from any single department in the Tri-State Area! The doctors named are: Robert A. Solomon, M.D.,...