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News
September 30, 2026
Faculty from Pitt Neurosurgery, including David Okonkwo, MD, PhD, and Thomas Buell, MD, took part in the 2026 Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) Annual Forum, held under the theme "Past Wisdom, Future Vision."
September 18, 2026
Pitt Neurosurgery hosted the John Moossy Symposium, where the two newest recipients of the John J. Moossy Medical Student Research Award in Neurosurgery presented their summer research to faculty, residents, and alumni.
September 9, 2026
Pitt and UPMC placed fourth among all institutions in the Top Institution with Selected Abstracts competition for the 2026 CNS Annual Meeting, with 111 abstracts accepted for presentation.
September 5, 2026
Faculty and staff joined survivors, families, and supporters at the Brain Aneurysm Foundation's annual Pittsburgh Run/Walk, held August 15 at North Shore Riverfront Park.
September 1, 2026
Georgios Zenonos, MD, was a keynote speaker at the 2nd Brazilian Congress of Skull Base Surgery in Gramado, Brazil. His lecture addressed the state of the art in surgical management and multimodal strategies for skull base chordomas.
August 29, 2026
Pitt Neurosurgery and the Swanson School of Engineering's Dept. of Bioengineering have launched a postdoctoral training program, Neural Engineering in Neurosurgery: Bridging Engineering to Clinical Practice, supported by a new National Institutes of Health T32 award.
August 24, 2026
The department marked the treatment of the 20,000th patient at the UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery, a milestone reached 39 years after the first Gamma Knife in North America was installed at then Presbyterian University Hospital.
August 19, 2026
Neslihan Nisa Gecici, MD, postdoctoral research fellow, has received the 2026 Rosenblum-Mahaley Clinical Research Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
August 8, 2026
Pitt Neurosurgery faculty authored a chapter on abnormal muscle recording during microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm in Springer's new Operative Neurophysiology.
August 4, 2026
Dr. Zhimin Huang has been awarded an NIH/NIBIB Trailblazer Award to develop a next-generation platform for noninvasive, programmable drug delivery to the brain.
July 10, 2026
Dr. Maroon and Dr. Miele, faculty in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery, served as invited visiting professors at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute on July 10.
July 6, 2026
Dr. Maroon served as visiting professor at the University of Michigan on July 1 and 2, 2026, delivering two lectures to faculty and residents.
July 4, 2026
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation will hold its annual Pittsburgh Run/Walk on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at North Shore Riverfront Park, bringing together survivors, families, and supporters to raise awareness of brain aneurysms and support research.
June 29, 2026
Pitt's Surreality Lab was featured in two sessions at AWE USA 2026, one of the leading conferences for extended reality and artificial intelligence, where its mixed reality surgical guidance work was presented to an audience of industry and academic leaders.
June 22, 2026
Residents of Pitt Neurosurgery were recognized with awards and subspecialty fellowship completions at the department's annual celebration.