The American Heart Association held their International Stroke Conference earlier this month and a number of people from our department were able to attend. Among them were fifth year neurosurgery resident, Christopher Kellner, MD and medical students Michael McDowell, Eric Sussman,...

Evan Johnson, PT, DPT, OCS, Physical Therapy Director of the Spine Center, and fellow physical therapist Rami Said, DPT, M.Eng.,OCS, recently presented their research on hip joint manipulation in Quebec City, Canada at the International Federation of Manual Physical Therapists (IFOMPT)...

For all of you who were planning to join us for The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA)'s first annual New York City 5K run/walk this Saturday,  November 10, unfortunately due to the storm and severe flooding, the race has been cancelled. This event was special to all of us here committed...

Senior neurosurgical resident, Dr. Brad Zacharia was among the many physicians from Columbia who attended the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) in Chicago last week. He presented his research, Variation in Outcomes for Management of Unruptured...

Our Neurosurgery Resident Dr. Adam Sonabend has been doing great work here at the Department of Neurosurgery. He has been awarded a Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) fellowship for his research in genetic alterations of recurrent glioblastoma...

Important new research linking Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), an aggressive form of brain tumor, with a genetic defect was just published in The Wall Street Journal. Two neurosurgeons from our Brain Tumor Center, Dr. Michael Sisti and Dr. Jeffrey Bruce, help us understand the importance of this new research...

A shining case of interdisciplinary medicine published in the Journal of Pediatric Transplantation has come out of Columbia’s Department of Neurosurgery...

New Jersey affiliate Dr. Anthony D’Ambrosio was recently quoted on the front page of The Record in a story, Potential cancer treatment lies within tumor itself. The article came out in the July 16, 2012 issue of the northern New Jersey newspaper and features the clinical trial he and...

Dr. Daniel H. Sahlein from the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center has had research on the subject of brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The research looks specifically at embolization as a treatment for bAVMs with a focus on...

Researchers here at the Department of Neurosurgery are working on an unconventional technique that gives new hope for the treatment of spinal cord injuries; spinal cord bypass surgery.