Dr. Michael Sisti will tell you it was his destiny, to not only be a neurosurgeon, but to be one here at the Neurological Institute. ”It was a combination of family and geography,” He says.  That, a chain smoking scout leader and a bunch of laboratory cats. “My family is very traditional...

Picture a little boy, about ten years old, freckled, with blond hair and high Irish cheeks running toward the neighborhood park. A crowd has gathered and this earnest boy makes his way through. In his left hand he carries a worn blue tackle box. In it is his usual stash of band-aids, ace wraps and antibiotic cream. Someone is hurt and he jumps in to help...

Editors of the journal Neurosurgery have chosen to feature the Department of Neurosurgery in their Legacy series.  The article, The Centennial of the Neurological Institute of New York and Its Department of Neurological Surgery, 1909-2009: A Commemorative Pictorial Essay was written by Donald...