We are pleased to announce the addition of neurosurgeon Dr. Sameer A. Sheth to our Department. Dr. Sheth received both his MD and PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA School of Medicine and then completed his neurosurgery residency and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical...

We are pleased to give you Dr. Christopher E. Mandigo, the latest neurosurgeon in our video series. Dr. Mandigo helps direct our Lenox Hill Hospital practice based in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His main offices are at Lenox Hill Hospital and in the Columbia Presbyterian Eastside building...

We are pleased to give you the next physician in our video series, Dr. Donald Quest from the Spine Center. Meet Dr. Donald Quest from Columbia Neurosurgery on Vimeo. Learn more about this video series and see our first one here: Meet Dr. Michael Sisti on Video  Stay tuned for our next...

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...