News

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.

June 16, 2026

C. Edward Dixon, PhD, Professor of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery, received an Honorary Award at the 2026 Annual Symposium of the National Neurotrauma Society in recognition of his contributions to the field of neurotrauma.

June 8, 2026

Faculty and residents from Pitt Neurosurgery joined 56 neurosurgery departments from across North America at the 21st Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament.