


Brain Tumor Study Confirms: Experienced Surgeons are Safer Surgeons
A study published this month in the Journal of Neurosurgery has some good news for our patients. The study examined complication rates after brain tumor surgery. The results are starkly in our favor. The study found far fewer complications for hospitals and doctors...
Three Columbia Neurosurgeons Learn from Famed Neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil
Three of our neurosurgeons, Dr. Michael B. Sisti, Dr. Guy McKhann and Dr. Anthony D’Ambrosio, had the distinct privilege of taking a three-day course with the great neurosurgeon, Dr. M. Gazi Yasargil last month. Dr. Yasargil was named Neurosurgery’s Man of...
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...