News

November 13, 2013

Article deals with Jackie Smith's efforts to help raise awareness of esophageal cancer.

October 22, 2013

Trauma expert part of $18.8 million National Institutes of Health study to improve traumatic brain injury diagnosis and treatment.

September 24, 2013

Noted neurosurgeon and sports medicine expert talks about his participation in upcoming Hawaii Ironman competition.

September 21, 2013

Spine radiosurgery expert talks about recent developments in radiosurgery for treatment of spinal column tumors.

September 6, 2013

Gamma Knife expert talks about how procedure helped athlete recover from AVM to continue playing.

July 9, 2013

Fifteen-year veteran of department and specialist in brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease, to head division effective July 1.

June 8, 2013

Steeler team neurosurgeon advice cited in well-documented 2009 concussion incident during recent concussion conference.

June 1, 2013

Sports medicine expert talks about head injuries, IMPACT testing and UPMC Concussion Conference. 

May 7, 2013

Walter Dandy Professor and chief of pediatric neurosurgery selected as chairman of prestigious medical journal editorial board.

April 19, 2013

Peter C. Gerszten, MD, MPH, professor of neurological surgery and radiation oncology and director of the department's percutaneous spine service, formally installed as the Peter E. Sheptak Professor of Neurological Surgery, April 18.

April 19, 2013

Groundbreaking project in which a woman with quadriplegia took a bite of chocolate using a robot arm has been selected to receive one of the Clinical Research Forum’s Annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards.

March 25, 2013

Award presented annually by the University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association to an outstanding non-alumnus who undertook residency training at the university.

February 20, 2013

Department vice chairman of research receives official designation in ceremony marked with lecture on neurochemical mechanisms in traumatic brain injury.

February 13, 2013

Department chairman and head of cerebrovascular neurosurgery talks about cerebral aneurysm treatment options in online feature article.

January 15, 2013

Department chairman receives official designation from School of Medicine Arthur S. Levine, MD, in ceremony marked with lecture on central nervous system research.