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Dr. Black named President-Elect of WFNS
November 2007
During the 2007 Executive Committee meeting in Nagoya, Japan, Dr. Black was named the president-elect of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Real-life Drama
Air Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Watch Dr. Black's interview with NBC affiliate, Channel 7 in Boston, regarding the NBC hit show, Crossing Jordan, whose main character struggles with a meningioma diagnosis.
Best In Boston 2007: The Top Doctors
Boston Magazine, February 2007
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Demystifying the Brain BWH Magazine, Winter 2007 Dr. Black and Dr. Carroll are both featured in this special issue of BWH magazine, dedicated to the exciting neuroscience initiatives currently taking place at the Brigham. Read about the brain mapping technology used by Dr. Black and his collegues, as well as Black Lab's cutting-edge glioma research which seeks to better understand how gliomas develop and grow. This new understanding will allow treatments to be devised that will shrink the gliomas while sparing healthy brain cells. |
Best In Boston 2006: The Top Doctors
Boston Magazine, February 2006
Dr. Black made the list again! In this issue, Boston Magazine featured an article recognizing the city's top doctors, describing them as "the best specialists to turn to when your health takes a turn." ‘Best Doctors', a Boston-based company founded in 1989 by two Harvard Medical School–affiliated physicians, polled medical profession, asking, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, who would you choose?”
Honored Guest, 2006 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
Dr. Black was the honored guest at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, October 7-12, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Focusing Ultrasound on Brain Tumors — Investigating MRI-Guided Noninvasive Therapy Without Ionizing Radiation Radiology Today, September 19, 2005 Dr. Black and colleague Dr. Ferenc Jolesz are among the physicians, physicists, and engineers at Brigham and Women's Hospital who are working to prove it is possible to treat brain tumors noninvasively with highly focused ultrasonic waves. |
Aggressive Surgery for Low-grade Brain Tumor May Lengthen Life
The Harvard Focus, April 22, 2005
Studies by Dr. Black and colleagues such as Dr. Elizabeth Claus have shown that intraoperative MRI allows surgeons to safely remove a greater portion of malignant tumors. Dr. Black helped design one of the first operating rooms in the country that allows for real-time brain imaging, a tool that enables neurosurgeons to safely remove more tumor tissue in people with low-grade gliomas.
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The Meningioma Initiative BWH Magazine, Summer 2003 BWH physician-scientists, including Dr. Black and Dr. Carroll, are finding new ways to prevent, diagnose and attack brain tumors called Meningiomas. |
Medical Technologies: Both Glitter and Gold
The Harvard Focus, June 20, 2003
As one of the honored speakers that 'dazzled the alumni audience' at the 2005 HMS Faculty Symposium, Dr. Black described advances in surgical "navigation" that he says have "revolutionized our treatment of brain tumors and changed the way we think about surgery and what we can do with it."
Dr. Peter Black and meningiomas featured on CNN, transcript
May 11, 2003
(Please note that the transcript states incorrectly that there are 70,000 new meningioma cases each year when the accurate number is 17,000 ( Central Brain Tumor Registry 2003 ).)
Brain Science Foundation Spotlight: Dr. Peter Black
Brain Science Foundation Spotlight: Dr. Rona Carroll
Endostatin Beads Pack Therapeutic Punch
The Harvard Focus, January 12, 2001
Peter Black, Rona Carroll and Nicholas Seyfried are featured in the Cancer Research section of this 2001 Harvard Focus. They and their colleagues have devised and tested in mice implantable capsules that contain endostatin-producing cells whose product cuts off the blood supply of tumors.
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Bloodless Revoluntion: Twenty-first Century Surgery Harvard Magazine, Vol. 103, No. 2: page 36 , Nov-Dec 2000 Work in the BWH Surgical Planning Laboratory is helping to make surgical procedures in Dr. Black's OR increasingly less invasive. This article explore advancements in intra-operative MRI technology and follows Dr. Black into the intra-operative MRI suite for a tumor resection. |
Scientific American Frontiers: Image-Guided Surgery
April 3, 1996
This PBS site contains a 20-minute video of Dr. Peter Black as he works with a patient before and during brain surgery.
