Department News

  • 2017 Graduation
    6/30/17
    Residents graduating from our program endure tremendous demands and undergo rigorous clinical training to become highly skilled neurosurgeons. Graduation is the time we highlight their efforts with sincere appreciation and thanks and send them off in the tradition of UBNS.
  • Outstanding Research Showcased at GME Scholarly Exchange Day
    6/28/17

    Two residents and two fellows received honors for outstanding poster presentations at the 20th Annual Graduate Medical Education Scholarly Exchange Day.

  • Faculty/Resident Softball 2017
    6/24/17
    UB Neurosurgery’s faculty/resident softball team participated in the Annual Charity Softball Tournament which helps fund the NREF Research Grants, earlier this month in Central Park.
  • Shared Space Fosters Collaboration and Innovation
    6/13/17

    Surgeons and researchers sharing facilities in UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Kaleida Health’s Gates Vascular Institute (GVI) is resulting in collaboration, synergy and world-class innovation.

  • Siegel Awards Acknowledge Teaching Excellence
    4/11/17

    Fourteen teachers in eight departments received 2017 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching at an April 4 ceremony.

  • Poulsen Studies Neuroprotective Agent for Traumatic Brain Injury
    3/6/17

    David Poulsen, PhD, professor of translational neuroscience in the Department of Neurosurgery, has received $966,000 in private funding to further study a novel neuroprotective agent for moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  • 26 New Faculty Join 11 Medical School Departments
    12/20/16

    Twenty-six faculty with varied research and clinical expertise — including two division chiefs and an associate dean for medical curriculum — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

  • Levy Installed as Hopkins Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery
    11/11/16

    Elad I. Levy, MD, MBA, has been installed as the inaugural L. Nelson Hopkins III, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery.

  • 2016 Graduation
    6/30/16
    A time when we salute or graduating residents and fellows on their amazing accomplishments … and we do it in style.