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News
May 12, 2025
Health and sports medicine expert receives with one of our nation’s most prestigious awards at a special black-tie gala in New York.
May 9, 2025
Rehab Neural Engineering Labs researcher receives award to support her research on whether DBS in the motor thalamus can improve speech and swallowing in patients with a TBI.
May 8, 2025
Professor and chair of neurosurgery at UMass Chan Medical School serves as honorary speaker at 2025 Peter J. Jannetta Lectureship.
May 3, 2025
Concussion and trauma expert discusses concussions, the long-term consequences of head injuries, and how contact sports and technology are evolving to address the concussion crisis.
May 3, 2025
Physician assistant—specializing in minimally invasive surgery, scoliosis and spinal deformity—receives professional doctoral degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.
May 1, 2025
UPMC Center for Cranial Base Surgery pioneered the EEA procedure more than 25 years ago and is now one of the busiest centers in the world for endoscopic treatment of cranial-based tumors.
April 16, 2025
The Giorgio Foundation Endowed Chair will help advance groundbreaking research in neurological conditions with a specific focus on neurofibromatosis type 1.
April 16, 2025
L. Dade Lunsford and Michael Lang provide background and treatment options on this often misdiagnosed condition in a UPMC Physician Resources feature article.
April 15, 2025
Book aims to empower patients through improved education, underscoring the concept of providing patients with appropriate medical resources.
April 11, 2025
Portable reference source, authored by Nitin Agarwal, enables swift assimilation of neurosurgical care essentials for residents and medical students.
March 29, 2025
"Approximately 5% of people walking around have an aneurysm," notes department chair in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.
March 28, 2025
Gary Kohanbash, Itay Raphael, et al study—published in Science Translational Medicine—turns regular T-cells into a fierce, customizable army to seek and destroy tumor cells.
March 28, 2025
Annual award to honor long-time mentor and residency contributor, recognizing outstanding Pitt medical students interested in the field of neurosurgery.
March 21, 2025
Ritesh Karsalia, Najib Muhammad, Abhinav Pandey, Rohit Prem Kumar and Sangami Pugazenthi match into the University of Pittsburgh neurological surgery residency program.
March 19, 2025
Researchers and pediatric neurosurgeons have developed a new way to profile brain cancers in children, paving the way for improved diagnostics and treatments.