Awards and Honors

Thank a Resident Day 2023

February 24, 2023

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

WCM Medical Student Rachael Han Awarded Best Chiari Paper at Peds Section 2022

January 9, 2023

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...

Second Year in a Row!

November 11, 2022

When Newsweek magazine released its 2023 rankings of the very best hospitals worldwide, the neurosurgery service at Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Irving Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian was honored again. For the second year in a row, our world-class neurosurgery service was named the top program in New York, and the best east of the Mississippi. Our esteemed colleagues at the Mayo Clinic nudged us out of first place...