Dr. Dorothea Altschul recently spoke to more than 500 healthcare professionals at The New Jersey State Stroke Conference. The conference was held in Princeton, New Jersey last month and was jointly sponsored by American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. "This was an...

Dr. Philip Meyers, from the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center here at Columbia University Medical Center, moderated a series of talks on endovascular neurosurgery at two conferences in Hawaii recently. The first was a series of oral abstracts on the subject of cerebral...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular and Cerebrovascular Centers was an invited speaker at two conferences held in Honolulu, Hawaii last month. Held just days apart, the two conferences were: the 3rd SNIS International Endovascular Stroke Conference and Joint Cerebrovascular Section Annual Meet...

As President Elect of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS), Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center has co-authored a new Standards of Practice document for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. In the hopes of improving the diagnosis and treatment of these common...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center has joined his colleagues in taking another look at the 2011 SAMMPRIS trial. SAMMPRIS, short for Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for the Prevention of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke, was a large multi-center trial that compared two methods...

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,...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center was part of a team to look at twenty years worth of peer-reviewed research on the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Specifically they looked at trials involving recanalization, procedures done directly inside an artery to remove an obstruction such...

Dr. Sean Lavine, neurosurgeon and endovascular specialist, spoke at Valley Hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute last month for an education conference. His talk was entitled, Endovascular Neurosurgical Approaches to Thrombo-Embolic and Hemorrhagic Stroke. The conference was for the...

Dr. Robert Solomon, Department Chair and Cerebrovascular Specialist, received a glowing testimonial from his patient Peter Cornelis in a video recently posted on NY Presbyterian's YouTube Channel. In the video, Mr.Cornelis tells the story of his amazing recovery from repeated strokes and a...

In the late afternoon of a Friday in June, retired teacher’s aid, Janice C. Silver was resting comfortably in her hospital bed in the Cardiac Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Three days before, her chest had been opened up for a heart valve replacement and everyone was relieved that her...