Dr. Anthony D’Ambrosio Trains Residents in Approaches to the Skull Base
We continued our residency cadaver lab series in late September, focusing on surgical approaches to an area of the brain known as the “skull base”. The skull base is a common location of brain tumors and aneurysms, but is also a region of the brain which...
US News & World Report Gives Columbia ‘Best Hospital’ & ‘Best Neurosurgeon’ Rankings
Every year US News and World Report comes out with a list of the Best Hospitals in the country and once again New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell has not only made the list, but the Honor Roll as well. The Honor Roll makes up only 0.4% of...
‘Meet the Doctor’ Video Series Complete!
We are so pleased to let you know that our “Meet the Doctor” videos are all done. Here at Columbia’s Department of Neurosurgery we have twenty seven doctors and we now have a wonderful introductory video on each one of them. In these short (3 minutes...
Retired Head of Columbia Neurosurgery Dr. Bennett Stein is Now ‘The Car Doctor’
Of all places, Dr.Bennett M. Stein, former Head of Columbia’s Neurosurgery Department, showed up in one of the April 2012 issues of AutoWeek Magazine. Now in his 80s, he is featured in an article entitled, The Car Doctor: A Retired Neurosurgeon Turns His Attention to...