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Dr. Stieg with Team Stieg, including his son, Nick, and his daughter, Claire
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief was honored for his advocacy for stroke prevention and innovation to improve stroke outcomes
Dr. Jared Knopman
Dr. Knopman appeared on CBS This Morning to speak about pitcher Danny Farquhar's sudden brain hemorrhage.
Babacar Cisse, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center

Babacar Cisse, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery and of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, has been named as the newest Leonard and Fleur Harlan Clinical Scholar, effective April 1, 2018. The three-year appointment supports an outstanding junior faculty member in the field of neurological surgery and will allow Dr. Cisse to develop his brain tumor research laboratory, which focuses on the development and progression of gliomas.

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Dr. Philip Stieg, Weill Cornell Medicine

Professor and Chairman Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD talks with Pat Farnack about treating IIH / pseudotumor cerebri with venous sinus stenting on WCBS 880.

Weill Cornell Medicine chief neurosurgical resident Ibrahim Hussain, M.D.

The world-class spine surgeons of the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center contributed significantly to “Restoring Alignment in an Era of Global Change,” this year’s meeting of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, held this year in Orlando, Florida. Our faculty members played an active part in directing and moving the conversation forward during the conference, at which chief resident Ibrahim Hussain, M.D. was awarded the Charles Kuntz IV...

Dr. Theodore Schwartz, the David and Ursel Barnes Professor of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine
The JNS is among the most respected journals in neurological surgery today
Whitney Parker, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine Neurosurgery
Dr. Parker's research will focus on the role of novel NMDA receptor variants in human brain development and epilepsy.
Dr. Babacar Cisse (right) joined Deputy Manhattan Borough President Matthew Washington and  New York City’s First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker
Babacar Cisse, MD, PhD, spoke to the young audience about the path he took from his childhood in Senegal to his life as a neurosurgeon in New York today.
Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery Residents Selected at Match Day 2018
We welcome Maricruz Rivera and Gary Kocharian, who will be joining our program in June.
Michael Kaplitt
Dr. Kaplitt has been given approval by the Weill Cornell Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB) to start a clinical trial testing the use of focused ultrasound to treat movement problems and medication complications in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

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