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Dr. Ning Lin, assistant professor of neurological surgery at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, has been elected to the 2016 board of directors of the Chinese American Medical Society (CAMS).  The mission of CAMS is to improve health care for Chinese Americans and to promote education, research, and scholarship with special emphasis on how they affect this population.  

Dr. Lin, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, treats patients at both NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens and the...

Dr. Philip E. Stieg, chairman of the Weill Cornell Department of Neurological Surgery and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, was installed as President of the Brain Tumor Foundation at the "A Taste for Life" dinner on November 10, 2015. 

Founded in 1998 by Patrick J. Kelly, M.D., the Brain Tumor Foundation has a strong focus on early detection, and addresses the social, financial and emotional needs of brain tumor patients and their...

Dr. Theodore Schwartz recently joined the 2015 Mission: BRAIN trip to Guadalajara, Mexico, where U.S. neurosurgeons provided their expertise to local health care providers and patients. This humanitarian effort, founded in 2011 by Dr. Michael Lawton of UCSF and Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa of Johns Hopkins, brings world-class neurosurgical services and training to under-served hospitals and patients. The project has developed multiple partnerships throughout Mexico and has recently expanded...