News

May 29, 2015

Concussion expert explains why youth football has never been safer in Q and A on National Alliance for Youth Sports website.

May 18, 2015

Three-day, 70-mile extreme hike raises over $71,000 for Checkpoint, a local online service developed to help area veterans and military families. 

May 8, 2015

Scoliosis, adult spinal deformity and trauma expert named to advisory board of the European Spine Journal.

April 26, 2015

Dinner helps raise over $25,000 for telemedicine program linking UPMC’s experts with doctors in Serbia.

April 5, 2015

Article talks about delicate brain surgery and rehab to help teenager recover from dangerous vascular malformation on the brain.

March 30, 2015

Steven Benso creates app for nurses to help track and manage licenses, certifications, clearances, continuing education and other vital documents.

March 24, 2015

Neil Alexander dies from Lou Gehrig's Disease. Had recently launched $10 million research center at University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute.

March 3, 2015

New technology shapes radiation to tumor and decreases treatment time.

January 29, 2015

Op-ed piece, cowritten with Julian Bailes, discusses the benefits of participation in youth sports amid today's concussion debate.

January 25, 2015

Cognitive Brain Health Program with St. Barnabas will focus on diet, dietary supplements, physical activity and stress management.

December 17, 2014

Study shows brain-computer interface technology has potential to improve function and quality of life of those unable to use their own arms.

December 14, 2014

Benign tumor threatened talented wood carver's sight and raised potential of stroke.

December 9, 2014

Skull Base Surgery offers step-by-step instruction on more than 45 procedures covering both open and minimally invasive approaches.

December 6, 2014

Huntington's disease study published in Nature Neuroscience cited by F1000Prime.com as being of special significance in its field.

November 24, 2014

David Okonkwo will serve as local lead investigator in study of Neuro-Spinal Scaffold in patients with acute spinal cord injury.