The annual Pool Symposium was held once again here at Columbia and the theme this year was pediatric neurosurgery. Dr. Neil A. Feldstein, Dr. Richard Anderson, and Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center were all there and each presented in their areas of expertise. Dr. Feldstein spoke about...

On December 6, 2007, in St. Petersburg, Russia, seventeen-year-old Taya Ogievetskaya was struck by a car that left her with just half her skull. Today you'd never know it, though, thanks to Dr. Saadi Ghatan...

It is an odd thing but every now and then a news item will come out about a child with a “tail.”   What this often turns out to be is a small benign tumor that has developed on the lower part of their back called a lipoma.  While this makes for a sensational story, these lipomas can actually...

Dr. Richard Anderson from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center was a faculty member as well as a panelist in two sessions at the recent American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting. The first was a didactic and hands-on review of problems located where the top of the spine meets the...

Surgeons* at the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center treat a number of children with a neurological birth defect called Chiari Malformation (CM).  Increasingly, they are finding that the most risky part of their surgical treatment, that is, opening the dura, may not always be necessary.  They...

Dr. Ghatan's specialization in Pediatric Neurosurgery encompasses a wide variety of disorders, with special emphasis in Childhood Epilepsy and Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Neurosurgery. Together with specialists in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian...

Dr. Feldstein has been the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery since his arrival in 1994.  Under his directorship the division has grown to three full time pediatric neurological surgeons who cover all aspects of pediatric neurological surgery.  Among his interests and...