Tag: neurosurgeons
Nick Hopkins, 1943–2024: neurointerventional community mourns pioneer and “force of nature”...
Leo Nelson (Nick) Hopkins, a world-renowned surgeon, researcher and innovator who played a pioneering role in modern neurosurgery’s shift from open- to endovascular-first techniques,...
Advancing neurosurgery inside and outside the operating room
Brian Nahed (Boston, USA) outlines the latest advances in neurosurgery, and why it is important for those working in the field to keep up...
Evolving the standard of care: What is next for functional neurosurgery?
The proliferation of new technologies and advancements in the neurosciences space has showed little sign of slowing in recent years and—as John Rolston (Boston,...
Hubly cranial access drill compares favourably to established device in safety...
Hubly Surgical has announced the results from the first peer-reviewed study comparing the safety and efficacy of its recently US Food and Drug Administration...
US centre achieves 87% drop in neurosurgical infection rates across two-year...
A US centre has achieved a steep drop in infection rates among its neurosurgery patients over a two-year period thanks to the implementation of...
Stryker announces commercial launch of Q guidance system with cranial guidance...
Stryker has commercially launched its Q guidance system with cranial guidance software to provide surgeons with an image-based planning and intraoperative guidance system that assists...
J Mocco
As president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), endovascular neurosurgeon J Mocco (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA) has...
ChatGPT outperforms medical students and matches residents on neurosurgical board-style questions
An analysis published in the Journal of Neurosurgery, which assessed ChatGPT’s (OpenAI) performance on a surrogate for neurosurgical board-style questions, has found that the...
Computing the future: Exploring ChatGPT’s potential role in neurosurgical practice
Brian Fiani (Livonia, USA) and Ryan Jarrah (Rochester, USA) take a look at the neurosurgical implications of one of the hottest topics permeating not...
Cerevasc appoints Adel Malek as its new chief medical officer
Cerevasc has named neurosurgeon Adel Malek as its new chief medical officer. This appointment will allow the company to further accelerate the development and clinical...
J Mocco becomes 27th Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery president
J Mocco, an endovascular neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai in New York City, USA has been named the 2022 president of the Society of NeuroInterventional...
Pedro Lylyk
Pedro Lylyk’s work and achievements in the neurosurgical field have spanned several decades, and range from a momentous intracranial stent placement in 1996, to...
Neuro42 licenses robotic technology from Johns Hopkins University
Neuro42 has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) for its magnetic resonance (MR)-compatible robot for head, neck and spine...
STAR network and Avail Medsystems partner to aid remote physician collaboration
Avail Medsystems has announced that it has entered into a partnership with the Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry (STAR), led by Alejandro Spiotta (Medical...
“Largest ever” study on traumatic brain injury highlights global inequality in...
Neurosurgery experts from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) have led what is claimed to be the largest ever study examining the surgical management...
SNIS 2021: Remote stroke interventions raise several unique ethical challenges
At the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s 18th annual meeting (SNIS; July 26–29 2021, Colorado Springs, USA and virtual), Jeffrey Saver, professor of Neurology at...
Neuro42 closes US$6.5 million Series A financing round
Neuro42, a US medical technology start-up focused on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and robotics, has announced the close of a US$6.5 million Series A...
