News

June 22, 2023

“Time to Follow Commands in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors With Favorable Recovery at 2 Years" selected as the 2023 Neurotrauma and Critical Care Paper of the Year.

June 21, 2023

Proposal to develop self-cleaning nasal endoscope chosen as one of four innovative, prototype projects to receive Chancellor's Gap Fund support.

June 14, 2023

Neurosurgical oncology specialist and PGY-4 resident perform major, delicate spine surgery to remove grapefruit-sized tumor wrapped around patient's spine.

June 12, 2023

Research findings may allow physicians to identify those at significant risk for Alzheimer’s and potentially offer early therapeutic treatment options.

June 7, 2023

Department chair talks about career strategies and managing the largest academic neurosurgery program in the U.S. on the “Practice and Business Management” podcast.

June 2, 2023

Epilepsy and functional neurosurgery expert named inaugural Stuart Niles Rowe Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Seventh chair holder in department.

May 18, 2023

Sports medicine expert helps set up the National Sports Brain Bank to study head trauma specific to athletes and its relationship to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

May 11, 2023

Third-year resident selected as socioeconomic fellow for 2023-24 by Council of State Neurosurgical Societies.

May 11, 2023

First-of-its-kind collaborative study with Marco Capogrosso and Carnegie Mellon's Doug Weber uses electrodes to restore stroke patients' mobility.

May 8, 2023

Spine neurosurgeon spotlighted in publisher's month-long recognition of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the education, research and medical fields.

April 25, 2023

PGY-5 resident takes home best clinical science award at Richard L. Simmons Research Day for poster on older adults with traumatic spinal column fractures.

April 19, 2023

Department faculty and residents will be participating in a number of sessions at the upcoming American Association of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting in Los Angeles, April 21-24.

April 11, 2023

PGY-7 resident's startup, Astria Biosciences, has business model to bring a new blood test to market that can accurately and less invasively detect brain aneurysms.

April 6, 2023

Gray Family Professor of Neurosurgery and vice chair of research at New York University's Langone Medical Center serves as honored guest at 2023 Peter J. Jannetta Lecture.

March 17, 2023

Hussein Abdallah, Stephanie Casillo, Albin John and Oliver Tang match into the University of Pittsburgh neurological surgery residency program.