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Faculty from Pitt Neurosurgery and Pitt's School of Computing and Information have developed a mixed-reality platform that lets surgeons manipulate real-time imaging in the operating room without breaking sterility.

Faculty and trainees from Pitt Neurosurgery will present at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Tumor Talk on June 1, 2026, at 4 p.m. EST, a webinar series hosted in partnership with the Journal of Neuro-Oncology.

Sarah Svirsky, PhD, received the Nancy Caroline Fellow Award at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research Symposium on May 7, 2026.

Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, FAANS, L. Dade Lunsford Professor and executive vice chair of the University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Neurological Surgery, was honored with the Tumor Section Distinguished Leadership Award by the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors.

Department faculty, residents, fellows and medical students will participate in a number of presentations, lectures and clinics at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting, scheduled for May 1–4 in San Antonio, Texas.

When the Kamin Tower opens in January 2027, UPMC Presbyterian will unveil two paired operating rooms built around a shared rail-mounted intraoperative MRI, bringing real-time brain imaging directly into the OR.

Brain Surgeon Without a Scalpel: Memoir of a Stereotactic Radiosurgery Pioneer, the memoir from Dr. L. Dade Lunsford, has been published by McFarland Publishing. Dr. Lunsford serves as the Distinguished Lars Leksell Professor of Neurological Surgery and former department chair at the University of Pittsburgh.