Yesterday marked the final day of this year's Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). This event, entitled A Celebration of Neurosurgery marks the 60th Anniversary for the CNS. The week-long conference was held in San Francisco and featured many of our own neurosurgeons as...

With two of our Chief residents gone (See Chief Residents Leaving The Nest) we are seeing a big shift among the residents with two new ones coming in this Fall. Three of our residents are being bumped up to the position of Chief.  With this comes more glory yes, but also a lot more...

Dorothea Altschul is an interventional neurologist with focus on acute neurological disease. She trained in Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology in a two year clinical fellowship at NY Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons) in New York. Prior to that she completed...

Dr. Sean Lavine, on both our Endovascular Center and Cerebrovascular Center teams,  has recently been throughout the country directing courses and serving as a faculty instructor for neurosurgeons, neurologists, and radiologists interested in learning the techniques of neuroendovascular...

Two years ago at their annual meeting the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) introduced Integrated Medical Learning (IML), a great new way to make the most of having so many neurosurgeons in the same place at the same time.  According to the CNS website, "Integrated Medical Learning® allows...

Like a lot of smart people, neurosurgeons know that it is important to keep learning. The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Meeting is a week-long event where neurosurgeons from around the world get together to teach and learn from each other. Many of the doctors from the different Centers...

Dr. Christopher J. Winfree of The Center for Peripheral Nerve Surgery and his colleagues describe in a paper, soon to be published in the journal Neurosurgery, how the innovative use of ultrasound can guide surgeons in the placement of a pain relieving device for a patient with intractable foot pai...

Dr. Mandigo completed her undergraduate education at Yale University where she graduated magna cum laude, and she earned her medical doctorate from Columbia, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her Neurological Surgery Internship, Residency and Chief Residency at the Neurological...

Dr. Mandigo earned his medical doctorate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his Neurological Surgery Internship, Residency and Chief Residency at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University. Dr. Mandigo's practice is...

Center Director Dr. Jeffrey Bruce went to New Orleans last week to join a panel on craniopharyngioma (a benign tumor that occurs near the pituitary gland) at the annual Congress of Neurological Surgeons meeting. Dr. Bruce participated as an expert on open surgical approaches at the panel, which also...