Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Chair and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
Vice Provost of Business Affairs and Integration
The past few decades have seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of the brain and how it works – new findings about plasticity, for example, have allowed us to revise our expectations about recovery after traumatic injury or stroke — and...
By Roger Härtl, MD
Director of Spine Surgery and Neurotrauma, Weill Cornell Medicine
Director, Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care
Earlier this month I was honored to serve as international faculty for a two-day seminar in Najaf, Iraq, sponsored by AOSpine Middle East. This was my third visit to Iraq for an AOSpine course, but my first time in Najaf. Although these teaching...
As a pediatric neurosurgeon, a large part of my job involves talking with anxious parents about their child’s upcoming surgery, and carrying families through a process they are never truly prepared for. As a parent myself, I cannot imagine how...
Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
I know what to expect when I mention “awake craniotomy” to anyone – the very mention of undergoing brain surgery while awake usually makes people shudder. It’s not surprising, since we all like to keep our skull intact and our brain protected. The...
By Kenneth Perrine, PhD, ABPP-CN, and Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, PhD, ABPP-CN
Neuropsychologists at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center
Patients who are referred here for neurosurgery are often a bit confused when they’re scheduled for time with a neuropsychologist before or after surgery. What does a psychologist have to do with neurosurgery, anyway?
By Rohan Ramakrishna, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Last week the Cancer Moonshot Task Force released its official recommendations for achieving the lofty goal set out in President Obama’s State of the Union address in January: ending cancer as we know it. I am convinced we can do it, but we need...
By Jeffrey Greenfield, MD, PhD
Co-director, Children's Brain Tumor Project
As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I thought nothing could be more frustrating than a brain tumor that can’t be fixed surgically. As a neuroscience researcher, I thought nothing could make me more impatient than the deliberately slow pace we need to take...
By Theodore Schwartz, MD
David and Ursel Barnes Professor in Minimally Invasive Surgery
I’ve traveled around the world to dozens of professional conferences and courses — in China, India, Egypt, and more — to train many neurosurgeons in advanced techniques for treating skull base tumors. But my past two summers in Mexico have provided...
By Mark M. Souweidane, MD
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Co-director, Children's Brain Tumor Project
This morning I did something I’d done 30 previous times over the past four years: I inserted a tiny catheter into a child’s brain to infuse an obscure combination of an antibody and a radioactive substance. This time was different, though. This was...
By Philip E. Stieg, Ph.D., M.D.
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
One of the biggest changes we’ve experienced in neurological surgery — and in medicine overall — in the past few decades is the use of high-tech imaging to see inside the body with great clarity and detail. MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, and PET scans...
