Dr. Roger Hartl

Dr. Roger Härtl has been named the first winner of the new Hans Kraus Award for Muscle Pain Education, presented by Foundation for Research and Advocacy for Muscle Pain Education (FRAME). Dr. Härtl is the Hansen-MacDonald Professor of Neurological Surgery and Director of Spinal Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as Neurosurgical Director, Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is also the founder and director of ...

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...