Michelle Buontempo, Rita Nguyen, and Caitilin Hoffman at 2023 Peds Section

The pediatric neurosurgery team of Weill Cornell had an impressive showing last week at the 2023 meeting of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery. The annual meeting of the joint section is the largest meeting in the United States focused on pediatric neurosurgery and is attended by more than 500 professionals from around the world. This year’s meeting, held in Oklahoma City, included two presentations and a poster from the craniofacial program of our pediatric...

Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations, Essentials for Patients and Practitioners

Addressing both the patient’s perspective and the neurosurgeon’s concerns, Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: Essentials for Patients and Practitioners, edited by Drs. Philip E. Stieg, Alexander A. Khalessi, and Michael L. J. Apuzzo, starts with an up-to-date approach to the matter of doctor-patient communication and moves on to the highly technical details of iAVM treatment options. The first section covers communication with patients (who may well want to read it themselves...

Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna

The results of a five-year, multi-center clinical trial testing an innovative combination of an adenovirus and an immune checkpoint inhibitor against recurrent glioblastoma were published this week in Nature Medicine. The Phase 1/2 trial was conducted at multiple sites around the United States, including at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine, where Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna was the principal investigator. The trial, the first of its kind in humans, showed the...