Congrats to Dr. Prestigiacomo for being awarded the 2026 Excellence in Mentoring Award from the UC College of Medicine Office of Student Affairs!

Dr. P was nominated by medical students for providing indispensable career development mentoring.

Well deserved!

Our Neurosurgery M3 Research Fellow Michael Coffin and Drs. Ngwenya and Virojanapa were awarded a Third Frontier Research Incentive Grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Ed for a 12 Month Prospective study to test the connection between MRI positioning and upper spinal cord injury detection.

Congrats to Dr. Ngwenya @surgeonsci.bsky.social for being recognized as a recipient in to top 25% of sponsored awards for the previous fiscal year.

Cancer Center tests treatment using ‘glioblastoma-on-a-chip’ and wafer technology A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers has received a $40,000 Ride Cincinnati grant to study the use of a delayed release preparation or wafer of an immunostimu...

Dr. Forbes was just featured in UC News discussing research on a new possible treatment for glioblastomas: immunostimulatory wafers to encourage cns immune responses after tumor resection. His team just won a grant from Ride Cincinnati for this research.
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Looking forward to Dr. Cheng's discussion on hospital RFP contracts versus surgeon‑led vendor models at the
AANS #SpineSummit on Feb 27. This debate hits at the heart of efficiency, autonomy and patient care. dspnspinesummit.org

Study tests non-opioid treatments for severe post-stroke headaches The University of Cincinnati is a site for a clinical trial testing a new approach to manage severe headaches that occur following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a type of stroke that accounts for app...

Dr. Prestigiacomo, head of the Neurovascular Division, has become site PI for a new clinical trial testing non-opioid treatment for post-stroke headaches. The study is sponsored by the University of Florida.

@ufresearch.bsky.social

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Dr. Patel and colleagues were just named a Multidisciplinary Team of Distinction by the North American Skull Base Society. This title recognizes teams that have notable experts from different specialties who diagnose, treat and manage skull base conditions.

Registration is open for the 2026 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting! Join us May 1–4 in San Antonio, Texas, for innovation, collaboration and transformation in neurosurgery. Register at annualmeeting.aans.org #AANS2026

Congrats to M2 student Jorge Robles Solivan for winning the Basic Science Outstanding Merit Award at the UC College of Medicine Research and Service Symposium with his project "Cortical Spreading Depolarizations Increase Aquaporin-4 Expression in a Rat Model of Traumatic Brain Injury"

UC joins trial testing three medications for TBI recovery The University of Cincinnati is a site for the TRACK-TBI-APT clinical trial, testing three medications as potential new treatments for TBI.

UC Neurosurgery was just approved as a participating site testing medication treatment for TBI.

#research #neurosurgery #neurotrauma #TBI

Man nearly paralyzed after bad fall now on road to recovery WLWT spoke with Paul Westhafer, his wife Betsy, and his surgeon Justin Virojanapa about his recovery after a fall that nearly left him paralyzed.

Check it out: Dr. Virojanapa was featured on @wlwt.bsky.social for operating on a patient following a complex spinal fracture. Read the story here on UC News:

Congrats to Dr. Ngwenya for being selected as Vice President-Elect of The National Neurotrauma Society.
@neurotrauma.org

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Andaluz who was chosen as the Chief of Staff-elect for UC Medical Center. He has been elected to represent the interests of the medical staff to the UC Health Board and administration.

Congrats to the new Dr. Andrew Gaulden, UC Neuroscience PhD student, supported at his dissertation defense by his wife Dr. Amber Gaulden, UC Neurosurgery Resident.

Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Faith Best, PhD!

Congrats to Dr. Ngwenya, @nsurgeonscience.bsky.social , on being named a 2025-26 @elamprogram.bsky.social Fellow! This program promotes and prepares women for executive leadership positions in academic medicine.

Neurosurgery Position Statement on Safety of Electric Bicycles and Scooters Position Statement on Safety of Electric Bicycles and Scooters Background Electric bicycles (e-bikes) and electric scooters (e-scooters), collectively

New CSNS position statement co-first authored by our resident Kyle McGrath on safety of electric bikes and scooters was just adopted by AANS/CNS. #neurosurgery #neurotrauma

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Congrats to Dr. Ishita Basu on being recognized by the UC College of Medicine Office of Research in their Gallery of Awardees! Featured researchers have been awarded external grants of $100,000 a year or more.

Repetitive cortical spreading depolarizations are prolonged early after experimental traumatic brain injury Cortical spreading depolarizations (CSDs) are the most common electrophysiological dysfunction following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and clustered…

Check out this new first author publication from the @cincyneurosurgery.bsky.social's first Neurosurgery Graduate Program Student Faith Best, written with @nsurgeonscience.bsky.social and Jed Hartings.

Faith's next stop: Dissertation Defense!

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