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...

Dr. Alfred Ogden, Neurosurgeon from the Spine Center, kindly donated his time to teach the residents in a cadaver lab this semester. Resident Gaurav Gupta, M.D. gives us the low down on the experience...

Education UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, M.D. 2012 New York University, College of Arts and Science, Neuroscience, B.A. 2003 Honors/Awards Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2011 Gunilla Bronell Scholarship in Neurological Medicine, 2011 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation...

Fifth-year resident, Elizabeth Fontana spent one month in one of the only pediatric neurosurgery hospitals in all of Africa, the CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda (CCHU) in Mbale, Uganda...

We are proud to announce that our resident neurosurgeon Chuck Mikell, MD has been deemed an outstanding young physician-investigator and awarded the Paul Janssen Fellowship. This fellowship will last two years, during which time Mikell says he, "plans to study dopamine neurons in awake patients...

Our Neurosurgery Resident Dr. Raqeeb Haque has been doing great work here at the Department of Neurosurgery.  This year he received a Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) grant for his research in peripheral nerve bypass surgery after spinal cord injury.  He worked on this with...

Education Research Fellow in Neuro-oncology at The Gabriele Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center; The University of Chicago Brain Tumor Center, Neuro-oncology Research Fellowship 2008; National Autonomous University of Mexico Faculty...

Education Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D. 2008 Harvard College, Biology, B.A. 2002 Honors/Awards: Alpha Omega Alpha, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2008 Gold Humanism Honor Society, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2008 Young...

Education Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D. 2007 Cornell University, Neurobiology and Behavior, B.S. 2003 Honors/Awards: Alpha Omega Alpha, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2007 Sigmund L. Wilens Prize, Excellence in Pathology, Columbia College of...