The annual Pool Symposium was held once again here at Columbia and the theme this year was pediatric neurosurgery. Dr. Neil A. Feldstein, Dr. Richard Anderson, and Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center were all there and each presented in their areas of expertise. Dr. Feldstein spoke about...

This summer, kids from the Lang Youth Medical Program got to view brain surgery with Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center. They were all middle or high school students from the Washington Heights area who participate in Lang's six-year science education and mentoring program sponsored by...

On December 6, 2007, in St. Petersburg, Russia, seventeen-year-old Taya Ogievetskaya was struck by a car that left her with just half her skull. Today you'd never know it, though, thanks to Dr. Saadi Ghatan...

Watch Dr.Saadi Ghatan, from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center in Action on Spanish TV as he performs epilepsy surgery on young Jennifer Flores.   This story was also recently covered on Fox News.

Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center spoke about epilepsy surgery live on Fox News last night.  The story, Surgery Stops Seizures was aired on their Ask Dr. Manny Show and featured a young girl, Jennifer Flores, who had up to 100 seizures a day until this amazing surgery.

Surgeons* at the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center treat a number of children with a neurological birth defect called Chiari Malformation (CM).  Increasingly, they are finding that the most risky part of their surgical treatment, that is, opening the dura, may not always be necessary.  They...

 Dr. Richard C.E. Anderson from our Pediatric Neurosurgery Center has just earned membership into the prestigious American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN).  This highly specialized group of neurosurgeons is dedicated to the advancement of their field through education and by,...

H. Houston Merritt, MD is widely considered the father of Neurology, by now however, it may be more accurate to say he is the Grandfather of Neurology.  In the 12th edition of Merritt's Neurology just published, the editors refer to the most recent bunch of contributors as his "intellectual...