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...
Innovations Discussed for Treatment of Deadly Brain Tumor, Glioblastoma Multiforme
Dr. Michael B. Sisti, along with two other Columbia University faculty members, spoke about innovations in the treatment of brain tumors last Friday at an event put on by the Mind, Brain, Behavior Society (MBBS). MBBS is a newly formed group established by Alex Sisti,...