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.

Our award-winning team included (left to right) Rachael Han and co-authors Dr. Alexandra Giantini Larsen, Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield, and Dr. John Chae

Rachael Han, a second-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College, was named winner of the Best Paper on Chiari award at the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery in December. The annual award, established in 2020, is given for the best paper on the topic of Chiari; it is funded by the Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation and presented at the annual meeting of the joint section.

Rachael’s winning paper (“Fourth Ventricular...