A Safety NETT for Brain Emergencies
Members of Cincinnati’s NETT team, from left: Irene Ewing, RN, Peggy Waymeyer, RN, Sara Stark, MEd, and Principal Investigator Arthur Pancioli, MD. In early 2007 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established NETT – the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials network, a permanent research framework that currently involves 17 university medical centers throughout the United States. […]
Doc Rodgers to be Special Guest at Brain Tumor Center’s Winetasting Fundraiser
Doc Rodgers at work. Photo courtesy of 700WLW. Doc Rodgers, the beloved 700WLW radio personality who is battling cancer, will appear as an honored guest and will provide an inspirational message during the UC Brain Tumor Center’s second annual winetasting fundraiser on April 28. The event will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Remembering Oliver “Ollie” Waddell: Leader, Humanitarian and Friend
Photo of Virgilee and Oliver Waddell by Melvin Grier / Cincinnati Post. The UC Neuroscience Institute’s clinicians, staff and supporters will remember Oliver Waddell as a devoted family man, successful business executive, and humanitarian whose generosity and empathy for others made the Waddell Center for Multiple Sclerosis possible. Mr. Waddell, who retired early as CEO […]
Back in the Game: Tom Tomsick, MD, Produces a Baseball Memoir
Thomas Tomsick, MD, in his office. Behind him, a 1966 photograph, taken by Rocky Colavito, of young Tom with the Cleveland Indians’ pitching coach, inscribed, “Good luck to my Good Buddy Tom — Early Wynn.” Photo by Mayfield Communications / Cindy Starr. As the bullpen catcher for the Cleveland Indians from 1964 to 1966, Thomas […]