Geraldine Wu, MD, posed the question on her PowerPoint slide to a room packed with listeners eager for a calmer, less stressful life. Mind full? Or Mindful? It was an ah-ha! moment.
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Living well on the pain scale with spinal cord stimulators
Spinal cord stimulators are unlikely to eliminate pain completely, but they can bring most individuals back into the happy fold of daily activities. That was the message delivered by Mayfield Clinic specialists
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Mayfield Lecturer Dr. Kim Burchiel: Could genetics be origin of trigeminal neuralgia?
Kim Burchiel, MD, the John Raaf Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, is challenging the long-held belief that trigeminal neuralgia is caused by
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Keller Lecturer Dr. Paolo Cappabianca charts a careful endoscopic route through the skull base
On a day that celebrated the collaboration between neurosurgeons and ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeons in the challenging arena of endoscopic skull base surgery, the Mayfield Education & Research Foundation and
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Remembering Dr. Charles Kuntz: Reflections from Patients and Colleagues
Tributes from Colleagues Charlie was an extremely talented surgeon and a valued member of our organization. He took great pride in leading and teaching. We all learned a great deal from him
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New generation of devices offers hope to patients who suffer large-vessel strokes
Doctors who treat life-threatening strokes by threading catheters and devices up from the groin into the brain have long believed they could save more lives if only they could safely grab hold
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Allergic to nickel? Be sure to let your doctor know!
Every year neurosurgeons treat nearly 17,000 brain aneurysms in the United States by placing a metal clip across the aneurysm’s neck. The metal clips, which are made of titanium or a metal
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Mayfield Lecturer Dr. Andres Lozano looks to DBS for new solutions to depression, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy
Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and the 2014 Mayfield Lecturer, inspired an audience of faculty and neurosurgery residents Friday by illuminating the promise
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Reflections from Patients and Colleagues
In Memoriam: Dr. Paul L. Cohen, 1968-2014 Tributes from Colleagues Paul, You have been my teacher, my partner, my friend. You changed my life forever. You are a large part of the
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Keller Lecturer Robert Spetzler illuminates neurosurgical paths less traveled by
In lectures that featured dozens of surgical videos, Robert Spetzler, MD, one of the world’s great surgeons, on Wednesday showed fellow surgeons and medical students how one gets from here to there
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A message to providers: teach, prescribe, and model the tenets of good health
John M. Tew, Jr., MD, a Mayfield Clinic neurosurgeon and Great Living Cincinnatian, issued a call to action to health care providers Thursday night in his keynote address at the Cincinnati Business
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Mayfield-supported Crosstown Concussion Crew makes its debut
They cut into tofu-like brains made from jello molds. They traced their fingers along the sharp ridges of bone inside the model of a skull. They wore concussion goggles that simulated the
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