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...

"I've been trying to organize this event for several years, as many of our members are women and yet almost all of them drop out prior to applying to residency," says McDowell. "Fortunately, this year we finally made it happen and we had the pleasure of having Dr. Mandigo..

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular and Cerebrovascular Centers was an invited speaker at two conferences held in Honolulu, Hawaii last month. Held just days apart, the two conferences were: the 3rd SNIS International Endovascular Stroke Conference and Joint Cerebrovascular Section Annual Meet...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center is Principal Investigator here at Columbia University for the Hydrogel Endovascular Aneurysm Treatment (HEAT) Trial. Approximately 600 patients will take part in this trial at 24 sites across the United States and Canada. With this trial, Dr....

Dr. Sean Lavine, neurosurgeon and endovascular specialist, spoke at Valley Hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute last month for an education conference. His talk was entitled, Endovascular Neurosurgical Approaches to Thrombo-Embolic and Hemorrhagic Stroke. The conference was for the...

Dr. Sean Lavine, from our Neurosurgery Department and an expert in Vascular and Interventional Radiology, recently won the 2012 Patients’ Choice Award for his stellar work in patient care, including “bedside manner, doctor-patient face time, degree of follow-up and courtesy of office...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center was one of just a few invited speakers from the United States to present at Neurovascon 2012, the 12th Annual conference of the Indian Society of Cerebrovascular Surgery (ISCVS), in Mumbai, India...

In the late afternoon of a Friday in June, retired teacher’s aid, Janice C. Silver was resting comfortably in her hospital bed in the Cardiac Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Three days before, her chest had been opened up for a heart valve replacement and everyone was relieved that her...

If you are going to have a stroke, you could hardly plan it any better than to be at a large metropolitan hospital like New York Presbyterian and to literally be in a room three floors down from an endovascular neurosurgeon like Dr. Sean Lavine--but that is exactly what happened to Michael...

We are so pleased to let you know that our "Meet the Doctor" videos are all done. Here at Columbia's Department of Neurosurgery we have twenty seven doctors and we now have a wonderful introductory video on each one of them. In these short (3 minutes or so) videos you can see and hear them talk...