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Dr. Härtl Introduces Explorers Club to Tanzania Project

December 1, 2017

Dr. Roger Härtl was honored to present the Neurosurgical Mission in Tanzania at a special event: Safari Night at the Explorers Club in New York on November 29. Dr. Härtl showed the assembled audience members the new video about his work in Tanzania (see below) as well as other relevant slides about conditions there.

Dr. Härtl was part of a slate of presenters who shared their passions and projects centered on Africa, including Richard Wiese, Alan Feldstein, Francis Assadi, Eliana...

Dr. Philip E. Stieg, Professor of Neurological Surgery and Chair of the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center

November 17, 2017

Dr. Stieg talks about Weill Cornell Medicine's annual mission to Tanzania bringing much-needed training to this under-served population.

Daniel Jacobs acknowledged Dr. Hartl from the ring after his win

November 13, 2017

Pointing out Dr. Härtl from the ring, the boxer called his neurosurgeon "the man who saved my life."

November 10, 2017

Dr. Stieg talks about TBI (traumatic brain injury) with Kate Delaney on NBC Sports Radio.

Srikanth Boddu, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens

November 2, 2017

Dr. Boddu joined the neurosurgery faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine in August after three years as a fellow in radiology at the Upper East Side main campus.

Dr Jeffrey Greenfield, Weill Cornell Medicine

October 26, 2017

Dr. Greenfield joins 9 of his colleagues from the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center who had previously earned this distinction.

Dr. Jared Knopman, Weill Cornell Medicine

October 23, 2017

Dr. Jared Knopman was the keynote speaker at the 14th annual “Current Techniques in the Treatment of Cranial and Spinal Disorders” Symposium, held Saturday, October 21, 2017, at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado. The CME conference was jointly provided by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Justin Parker Neurological Institute.

Dr. Knopman’s keynote address was on “Innovations in Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Surgery.” Dr. Knopman, a...

Dr. Mark Souweidane, Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center

October 20, 2017

The committee is charged with reviewing and prioritizing Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trial concepts, in order to promote the best clinical and translational research for patients with brain cancer.

From the Annals of Weill Cornell Neurosurgery

October 10, 2017

We are very happy to announce the first installment of “From the Annals of Weill Cornell Neurological Surgery” has been published in the October 2017 issue of World Neurosurgery.

Philip Stieg, Ph.D., M.D., and Paolo Cappabianca, M.D., have coordinated this effort at Weill Cornell Medical College and will serve as the section editors. In addition, Drs. Stieg and Cappabianca have invited a distinguished panel of peer reviewers to assist in the preparation of the...

September 29, 2017

Thanks to a gift from the Lyonhearted Foundation of southern California, Dr. Mark Souweidane and Dr. Uday Maachani will initiate a new research project in the Children’s Brain Tumor Project laboratory. The team expects the new investigation to validate the use of cell-free tumor DNA (cf-DNA) as a biomarker of the disease burden in children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

DIPG is an infiltrative tumor, difficult to image and measure and impossible to remove surgically....

Dr. Härtl Introduces Explorers Club to Tanzania Project

Dr. Stieg Talks About Tanzania Mission on America Tonight

Danny Jacobs Wins; Gives Dr. Hartl Shout-Out

Dr. Stieg Talks About the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury on The Kate Delaney Show

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in Queens

Dr. Greenfield Named to List of Top Doctors 2017

Dr. Knopman Keynotes on Cerebrovascular Surgery

Dr. Souweidane Named to NCI’s Brain Malignancies Steering Committee

Introducing “From the Annals of Weill Cornell Neurological Surgery”

Lyonhearted Foundation Funds New DIPG Project