


Looking for a Neurosurgeon? Ask About Specialization
Patients fare better when their surgeons are specialized. So says a new study published in the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) and picked up by The Wall Street Journal. We couldn’t agree more! In fact, the neurosurgeons at Columbia University Medical...
Specialization Matters Whether it’s Time to Fix your Ferrari 458 Italia or your Brain
Consider the Ferrari 458 Italia. Its V8 engine offers 125 horsepower for every one of its 4.5 liters. It’s more than a car – it’s a feat of engineering. Imagine you are one of the few tosis own this, or any, Ferrari (or maybe you don’t have to imagine – lucky you). Do...
Introducing NeuroSpiral for the iPad
We are proud to introduce the first iPad app affiliated with Columbia’s Department of Neurosurgery–Neurospiral. The app, which can measure tremors and hand-eye coordination, was created by Jonathan Sisti, the son of Brain Tumor specialist Dr. Michael B....
‘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...