Gamma Knife Center Celebrates Sixteen Years
Last week, the team at the Gamma Knife Center treated their 4,000th patient, and this week they are celebrating sixteen official years of service. The Center opened its doors in 1998 with Dr. Steven R. Isaacson, a radiation oncologist, and Dr. Michael B. Sisti, a...
Dr. Michael Sisti Receives 2014 ‘Top Doctor’ Award
Dr. Michael Sisti, from our Brain Tumor Center and Gamma Knife Center, has once again been named one of America’s Top Doctors for neurological surgery. You can find him listed in Castle Connolly’s 2014 editions of America’s Top Doctors (5th year in a row), Top...
Columbia Neurosurgeons Fill in Data Gaps for Glioblastoma Treatment in the Elderly
The elderly make up a substantial portion of patients diagnosed with the deadly brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Unfortunately, a general assumption that they have an increased risk of surgical complications means their prognosis is often worse than...
Columbia Neurosurgeons Reunite with Great Colleagues at CNS 2013
The Neurosurgeons at Columbia University Medical Center attend annual professional meetings to share and to learn, but they also go for the chance to see great friends and colleagues. This was the case in spades at this year’s meeting of the Congress of...