The Weill Cornell Medicine Neurosurgical Innovations and Training Center for Skull Base and Microneurosurgery is a state-of-the-art educational facility that integrates meticulous cadaveric dissection, 3D visualization, virtual reality, and computerized simulation, providing advanced surgical procedure and visuospatial skill training for neurosurgeons to treat complex skull base lesions.
The Neurosurgical Innovations and Training Center was established in 2010 by Dr. Philip Stieg and Dr. Antonio Bernardo. Today the lab facilitates unique training opportunities not only for our own residents but for neurosurgeons around the world who attend lectures and continuing medical education courses in-person and via international teleconferencing sessions. Dr. Bernardo developed the unique Interactive Virtual Dissection (IVD) technology that allows Neurosurgical Innovations and Training Center students to study and practice transpetrosal approaches and other cranial base surgical techniques in 3D simulation.