Ameer’s Story: Pituitary Tumor
Ameer’s friends noticed the weight loss, and they kept asking him about it. Was he OK? Ameer wasn’t concerned at first. Then he began to notice that he couldn’t see people approaching him from the side. His peripheral vision was deteriorating. The third symptom landed him in the hospital. After getting up unusually late one […]
John’s Story: Epilepsy
In golf they call it a “bad lie.” A golfer strikes the ball, hoping to place it in a comfortable location on the fairway or the green, but the ball winds up somewhere else entirely – on the side of a slope, perhaps, or in a clump of weeds in the rough. Extricating oneself from […]
From First Craniotomy to First Book, Chief Neurosurgery Resident Travels a Fast Track
Ondrej Choutka, MD, with his most recent accomplishment. Photo by Mary Kemper/Mayfield Clinic. Czech-born Ondrej Choutka, MD, has not only managed the demanding schedule of his sixth and final year of residency in the Department of Neurosurgery, he has also co-authored a recently published book on cervical spine surgery — an accomplishment that normally comes […]
French Delegation Visits UC Cancer Institute
The rapidly evolving UC Cancer Institute, a close collaborator with the UC Brain Tumor Center, enjoyed some rarefied company Wednesday, as a group of 30 delegates from the French Ministry of Health and French academic hospitals stopped by to learn how UC has envisioned and constructed its cancer center. The French delegation had previously visited […]
Schott Foundation Gift Helps Put a Bull’s-Eye on Metastatic Brain Tumors
Francie and Tom Hiltz have witnessed the virulence of metastatic brain tumors not once, but twice. One family member was treated in a clinical setting, without access to a clinical trial that might have made a difference. Another family member was treated in Cincinnati and elsewhere. “He was making some progress toward remission,” Mr. Hiltz […]
UC Brain Tumor Molecular Therapeutics Program Launched With $2 Million Gift, $4.5 Million Institutional Investment
Contact: Amanda Harper (513) 558-4657 [email protected] NOTE TO EDITORS: A launch ceremony and donor reception will be held March 17, 2011, at 4:30 p.m. in the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, 3125 Eden Ave. on UC’s medical campus. Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend. Cincinnati—The University of Cincinnati (UC) is launching a new Brain Tumor […]
A Great Living Cincinnatian Draws Courage from His Patients and Gives Hope in Return
John M. Tew, MD, left, and UC President Gregory Williams at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s annual dinner. Photo by Cindy Starr/Mayfield Clinic. John M. Tew, Jr., MD, Clinical Director of the UC Neuroscience Institute and a neurosurgeon with the Mayfield Clinic for more than 40 years, was honored as a Great Living Cincinnatian Thursday […]
Dick’s Story: Ischemic Stroke
As a firefighter who attends regular EMS drills, Dick Koeniger was well versed in the signs and symptoms of stroke. While driving home with a friend one evening last June, he suddenly noticed that his peripheral vision was slightly impaired. Odd, he thought. Was it related to the tension headaches, right behind the eyes, that […]
Jeff’s Story: Ruptured Aneurysm, Airway Reconstruction
Jeff’s remarkable story has two parts: recovery and reconstruction. He doesn’t remember the first part — the recovery from a ruptured aneurysm. But he vividly remembers the second part — the reconstruction of his airway. He is living the followup to his story now: back to work full-time as an engineer, back to volunteering at […]
Lessons from the Tragedy in Tucson
Photograph, “Despair,” by Cindy Starr / Mayfield Clinic. The recent tragedy in Tucson was a topic of sobering discussion in academic departments of psychiatry, psychology and social work throughout the United States. Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, Professor and Director, Schizophrenia Program, and Stephen M. Strakowski, MD, the Dr. Stanley & Mickey Kaplan Professor and Chairman […]