Neurosurgeon Osama Kashlan, MD, MPH, has joined the faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery, and will see patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist. Dr. Kashlan is an award-winning, board-certified neurosurgeon who is fellowship trained in spine surgery. His specialty is minimally invasive spine surgery, including innovative new endoscopic approaches to the spine. He will see patients at clinical offices in downtown Brooklyn, Sunset Park, and...

The faculty members of Weill Cornell Medicine are consistently named to annual lists of Top Doctors, Best Doctors, and Super Doctors. We are honored that so many of our faculty are included on the 2024 Castle Connolly list of America’s Top Doctors, joining 300+ of our Weill Cornell Medicine colleagues from every discipline. Many of these top doctors have been named to this prestigious list for 10, 15, or even 20 years.

The 2024 list of America’s Top Doctors features these...

Since Newsweek and Statista started ranking specialized hospitals in 2021, the neurosurgery service at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University has been at the top of the list. When the 2024 lists came out earlier this month, it was a hat trick – for the third year in a row we are the #1 hospital for neurosurgery in New York, and one of the very best in the world. (Yes, in the world.)

“We are of course proud to be...

A world-class new hospital unit dedicated to spine patients has opened on the second floor of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, thanks to the generosity of the Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation. The new unit features all single-occupancy rooms, where patients will be cared for by spine specialists that include physician assistants and physical therapists in addition to bedside nurses.

Och Spine at NewYork-...