Philip E Stieg accepting the 40th Maurice Greenberg Award

In an elegant celebration at the Plaza Hotel last night, Dr. Philip E. Stieg was presented with the 40th Maurice Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. The award, the highest honor at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, recognizes an outstanding individual for exceptional and longtime service. Dr. Stieg joins a distinguished list of prior winners, including Dr. Bronson Ray, who was chief of the Neurosurgery Division from 1943 to 1971; Dr. George Papanicolaou, a pioneer in...

Santiago R. Unda, MD, post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Michael Kaplitt’s Laboratory of Molecular Neurosurgery

Santiago R. Unda, MD, a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Michael Kaplitt’s Laboratory of Molecular Neurosurgery, was awarded the 2022 Ronald R. Tasker Young Investigator Award by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). The Tasker Award is given at the CNS meeting each year to the highest-ranked abstract submitted on pain research by a resident, fellow, or neurosurgeon two years in practice or less.

 The abstract, “Retrograde...

Thank a Resident Day

February 24 is this year's Thank a Resident Day, when we show our appreciation for the doctors in our seven-year-long training program. Thank a Resident Day was started in 2018 by the Gold Humanism Honor Society to show gratitude to residents and encourage the medical students who are tomorrow's residents. Look for our neurosurgery residents, and messages of thanks from their mentors, all day today on social media.