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...

Three of our Spine Center neurosurgeons took part in the program; Dr. Peter Angevine, Dr. Paul McCormick, and Dr. Michael Kaiser. This year's section meeting had a four day scientific program titled,

A year ago, we posted a story about Sara Gilbert Nadler-Goldstein, a woman with complex medical issues who had spine surgery with Dr. Paul McCormick from the Spine Center (read our story: Sometimes it Takes a Village--to Treat a Patient). Sara is singing Dr. McCormick's praises again in a...

Dr. Paul McCormick from the Spine Center was invited to Riyadh recently to serve as a consultant and guest examiner for the Saudi Arabian Board of Neurosurgery's oral examination certification...

Dr. Paul McCormick, Director of our Spine Center, recently returned from a trip to Brussels where he presented at The Jacques Brotchi Symposium...

Dr. Paul McCormick, Director of the Spine Center and Herbert & Linda Gallen Professor of Neurological Surgery, spoke at the recent 2012 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in Chicago. He co-directed a practical course with Dr. Peter Angevine on Using...

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) has released their 2012 Annual Report and it provides a terrific overview of their work accomplished under the leadership of Dr. Paul McCormick, Director of our Spine Center and Herbert & Linda Gallen Professor of Neurological Surgery at Columbia University...

Every year US News and World Report comes out with a list of the Best Hospitals in the country and once again New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell has not only made the list, but the Honor Roll as well. The Honor Roll makes up only 0.4% of the nearly 5,000...

Proud fathers Dr. Michael Sisti from our Brain Tumor Center and Dr. Paul McCormick from our Spine Center have welcomed their sons, Alexander and Paul respectively, into the fold...

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...