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...

Education Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, M.D. 2007 Chemistry/Microbiology, University of Victoria, Canada, B.S. 2001 Honors/Awards: Alpha Omega Alpha, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 2007 1st Place "Outstanding Clinical Science Poster...

Education Weill Medical College of Cornell University, M.D. 2006 Philosophy, Princeton University, B.A. 1999 Honors/Awards George G. Reader Prize in Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2006 Russek...

Education Stanford University School of Medicine, M.D. 2007 M. Phil, English Literature, University of Cambridge, England 2001 English, Yale University, B.A. 2000 Honors/Awards Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Training Fellowship for Medical Students, 2005 William B. Bean...

Education Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D. 2006 Chemistry, Cum Laude, Harvard College, B.A. 2001 Honors/Awards American Neurological Association Medical Student Summer Research Award, 2003 American Academy of Neurology Summer Scholarship, 2003 Summer Scholarship...