HOUSTON (September 6, 2023)
Memorial Hermann’s flagship hospital Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center ranked in the top 50 hospitals in the nation in neurology and neurosurgery according to US News & World Report.
HOUSTON (November 10, 2022)
Wesley H. Jones, MD, a dual fellowship-trained neurosurgeon specializing in cranial and spine surgery, has joined Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Associates-Katy Neurosurgery.
Houston (September 27, 2022)
Healthgrades awarded Memorial Hermann-TMC with the America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention™. Coronary interventions include angioplasty with the use of stents. It was also recognized as #2 in the state of Texas for coronary intervention.
HOUSTON (July 12, 2022)
Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital is the first hospital in the nation to deploy an integrated robotic surgical suite that provides advanced 3D and 2D intraoperative imaging capabilities and an intuitive surgeon-controlled robotic arm that aims to increase reliability, consistency and surgical p...
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS (June 6, 2022)
Sabih T. Effendi, MD, a fellowship trained cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgeon, has joined Mischer Neuroscience Associates at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center. He will serve as Stroke Medical Director for the hospital.
HOUSTON (March 9, 2022)
The Neuroscience Service Line at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC) has earned Silver Beacon Awards of Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).
HOUSTON (November 30, 2021)
Memorial Hermann Southwest is the first hospital outside of the Texas Medical Center to receive the Joint Commission’s CSC designation. With this announcement, four hospitals in the Memorial Hermann Health System have now received CSC certification, the highest number of CSC-designated hospitals ...
HOUSTON AND THE WOODLANDS (September 3, 2020)
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center and Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center both have received certification from DNV GL Healthcare as Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSC). CSC status is the highest level of care of all stroke certifications. Memorial Hermann Memorial...
HOUSTON (July 13, 2020)
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC) recently became the first hospital in Texas to implant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Percept™ PC Deep Brain Stimulation system by Medtronic in patients with neurologic disorders.
HOUSTON (May 15, 2018)
Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center was recently honored by the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council (SETRAC) for providing outstanding stroke care that has resulted in countless numbers of saved lives.
HOUSTON (January 15, 2018)
Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Associates (MNA) is pleased to announce the addition of board-certified interventional pain management specialist Hiral Patel, MD
HOUSTON (October 27, 2017)
Angela Shippy, MD, senior vice president and chief quality officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, and Amanda Spielman, president of Mischer Neuroscience Associates, were recently recognized by the Houston Business Journal as 2017 “Women Who Mean Business.”
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS (October 2, 2017)
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital has officially changed its name to Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center.The name change underscores the advancement in medicine and services now available in Montgomery County and surrounding areas.
KATY, TEXAS (September 12, 2017)
September is Pain Awareness Month and neurosurgeons affiliated with Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital hope people will talk with a physician about all their options for treating back pain.
KATY (June 29, 2017)
A Katy woman recently returned to thank the physician who she says helped saved her life after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm.
HOUSTON (June 22, 2017)
Mischer Neuroscience Associates is pleased to announce the addition of board-certified neurologist Guy Burrows, MD.
HOUSTON (May 19, 2017) As the nation’s top neurosurgeons convene in Houston this weekend, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC) is proud to welcome the distinguished delegation with a special exhibit in its Rick Smith Gallery dedicated to celebrating the beauty and complexity of the human brain.
HOUSTON (February 14, 2017)
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital is hosting a free educational seminar for patients, families and healthcare professionals interested in learning more about the latest treatment options for spasticity.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS (December 20, 2016)
Woodforest National Bank has donated $500,000 to support a new Neuroscience Center that is currently under construction at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital.
HOUSTON (September 15, 2016) Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Associates (MNA) and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth are pleased to announce the addition of Justin P. Morgan, M.D.
HOUSTON (August 24, 2016)
Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Associates (MNA) and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth are pleased to announce the addition of Joseph Cochran, M.D. Dr. Cochran will serve as a neurosurgeon at Mischer Neuroscience Associates-Southwest as well as Mischer Neuroscience Associates-Sugar Land.<...
HOUSTON (May 17, 2016)
Quickly identifying the symptoms of stroke and receiving immediate treatment can minimize the long-term effects of a stroke and even prevent death. Fortunately for Gerald, that’s exactly what happened.
HOUSTON (May 16, 2016) Memorial Hermann is proud to announce that eight of its hospitals have received recognition from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) for the high-quality stroke care provided to patients.
HOUSTON (May 5, 2016)
The Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth are pleased to announce the addition of Joseph Martinez, M.D. Dr. Martinez will serve as a neurosurgeon at Mischer Neuroscience Associates as well as an assistant professo...
HOUSTON (April 20, 2016)
The Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) encourages you to participate in the 2016 Rock ‘N’ Stroll for Epilepsy presented by the Epilepsy Foundation of Texas.
HOUSTON (March 24, 2016) According to the CDC, about 2.9 million people in the United States have active epilepsy – that’s counting both children and adults. Characterized by unpredictable seizures, epilepsy is the fourth most diagnosed neurological disorder and can often cause sufferers to feel alone and isolat...
HOUSTON (March 23, 2016)
Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) was recently selected as the first site in Texas to receive the Medtronic Specify SureScan® MRI Technology, which is the first-ever MRI-safe spinal cord stimulation device. MNI will have access to the device beg...
HOUSTON (February 3, 2016) The Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth are pleased to announce the addition of Spiros Blackburn, M.D. Dr. Blackburn will see patients at MNI and at Mischer Neuroscience Associates-Memorial City, and will also ...
HOUSTON (January 27, 2016)
The Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth are pleased to announce the addition of Angel I. Blanco, M.D. Dr. Blanco will direct radiation and stereotactic radiosurgery at MNI and serve as an assistant professor...
HOUSTON (January 7, 2016)
The Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth are pleased to announce the affiliation of interventional pain management specialist Mark Burish, MD Dr. Burish will direct the Will Erwin Headache Research Center at ...
HOUSTON (November 24, 2015)
To help drive awareness of the disease during November – National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month – physicians from Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center want to remind folks of the signs and symptoms, as well as provide information on early interve...
HOUSTON (October 30, 2015)
Currently there is no cure for Parkinson's disease, but medication and therapy are used to treat its symptoms. Neurosurgeons at Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and UTHealth Medical School offer patients a highly specialized treatment called deep brain stimu...
HOUSTON (October 7, 2015)
For the second year in a row, Houston’s City Hall will be lighting up teal in an effort to raise awareness for trigeminal neuralgia (TN), a chronic pain condition that causes extreme, sporadic facial pain and affects an estimated four to eight million people worldwide.
HOUSTON (September 24, 2015)
Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital Senior Vice President and CEO Heath Rushing and Manish Shah, M.D., UTHealth pediatric neurosurgeon affiliated with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, have both been named t...
HOUSTON (July 6, 2015) Nitin Tandon, MD, UTHealth neurosurgeon and Director of Epilepsy Surgery at Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, has successfully implanted NeuroPace®’s RNS® System technology into the skull of a 36-year-old epilepsy patient to help reduce the freque...
HOUSTON (June 2, 2015)
Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center has recently renovated and expanded its Gamma Knife facility, offering patients enhanced accommodations and technologies including a brand new, advanced Gamma Knife.
HOUSTON (June 1, 2015)
Arthur L. Day, MD, vice chair and director of clinical education in neurosurgery at Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and professor of neurosurgery at UTHealth Medical School, has received the prestigious Harvey Cushing Medal, the highest honor awarded by the...
HOUSTON (May 21, 2015) This spring, the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) recognized the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center with the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus - Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus award.
HOUSTON (May 1, 2015) The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) has recertified the Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI) as a Level 4 epilepsy center, the highest level of epilepsy care.
HOUSTON (April 27, 2015)
Approximately 5,500 people, including 80 brain cancer survivors, recently participated in the 13th annual Run for the Rose. The 5K raised the most money in its history with $605,000 benefiting pediatric health initiatives, including but not limited to brain cancer, at Children’s Memorial He...
HOUSTON (April 6, 2015)
Physicians from UTHealth Medical School, affiliated with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center (MNI), will be among presenters at the 1st Annual Pediatric Neuroscience Symposium to be held from 8:30 a.m. – ...
HOUSTON (April 2, 2015)
Brain cancer will once again meet its match this April as patients, supporters and family members converge for the 13th Annual Run for the Rose to raise awareness and funds benefiting Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
HOUSTON (February 6, 2015)
Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital is proud to announce Neurologist Robert W. Fayle, MD, has been honored as Physician of the Year by the Texas Neurological Society.
HUMBLE, TEXAS (October 15, 2014)
Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital hosts a free seminar on Saturday, Nov. 1 about the benefits and risks of deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, tremor, and dystonia.
KATY, TEXAS (June 5, 2014)
Mischer Neuroscience Associates (MNA), a network of outpatient clinics affiliated with the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann – the largest and most comprehensive neuroscience program in Texas, is pleased to announce neurosurgeon Baraa Al-Hafez, MD is now seeing patients in Katy.<...
HOUSTON (June 4, 2014)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, in partnership with Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC), is proud to announce that the UTHealth Mobile Stroke Unit has successfully transported and helped save the life of its very first patient.
HOUSTON (May 7, 2014)
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suff...
HOUSTON (February 3, 2014)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, in partnership with Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, is unveiling the country’s first Mobile Stroke Unit today, which is outfitted with a computed tomography (CT) scanner that allows a mobile stroke unit tea...
HOUSTON (October 11, 2013)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is just the third institution in the country designated as a Willis-Ekbom Disease (WED)/Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Quality Care Center.
HOUSTON (October 8, 2013)
Fourth grade picture day took a drastic turn for Lauren Lackey and her family. After being rushed to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Lauren was diagnosed with two complex conditions that restricted blood flow to her brain. Neurosurgeon Dr. Roc Chen recognized the conditions and acted quickl...
HOUSTON (September 21, 2013)
An international, Phase III clinical trial studying ultrasound in combination with tPA - the only current therapy for stroke caused by a blood clot in an artery - to treat acute ischemic stroke has begun at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
HOUSTON (August 8, 2013)
The Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center is pleased to announce the addition of neurosurgeon Ryan S. Kitagawa, MD, to the medical staff, concurrent with his appointment as assistant professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery at the University of...
HOUSTON (May 29, 2013)
The Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center achieved a significant milestone recently after being recognized by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association as meeting The Joint Commission’s standards for Disease-Specifi...
HOUSTON (October 31, 2011)
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in collaboration with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, announced the appointment of Ying Liu M.D., Ph.D. as Assistant Professor with The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery at UTHealth and Research Sci...
HOUSTON (May 15, 2011)
Doctors treating the Arizona congresswoman say her cognitive abilities and physical strength have improved to the point where she no longer needs to remain a patient in the hospital.
HOUSTON (April 25, 2011)
Rep. Giffords was given the green light to travel to Florida last week after her doctors determined that she is well enough to leave TIRR Memorial Hermann, where she has been undergoing rehabilitation since late January.
HOUSTON (January 5, 2011)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has begun enrollment for the first Phase I safety study approved by the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of a child's own umbilical cord blood stem cells for traumatic brain injury in children. The study is bei...
HOUSTON (November 21, 2008) Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital is the first hospital in South Texas and only one of five facilities in the nation to be home to the Trilogy Tx for treating brain, spinal cord cancer and other central nervous system disorders with non-invasive, image-guided radiosurgery.
HOUSTON (August 13, 2008)
At Memorial Hermann, we are deeply committed to providing acute stroke patients with the latest breakthrough treatments, including new clot dissolving drugs. USA Today recognized the program for its level of care.
HOUSTON (April 16, 2008)
Emilio Navaira has reached a significant milestone in his recovery and has been upgraded to fair condition at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.
HOUSTON (April 4, 2008)
As part of the ongoing treatment to the various injuries sustained by Emilio Navaira in his tour bus accident, doctors performed a successful procedure on the afternoon of March 31 to treat a pseudoaneuurysm in Navaira's right lung.
HOUSTON (March 27, 2008)
Emilio Navaira is slowly regaining consciousness. On the evening of March 26, Navaira opened his eyes and moved his arms and legs.
HOUSTON (March 26, 2008)
Emilio Navaira underwent successful surgery late evening on Tuesday, March 25 to remove a bone flap from the skull. This common procedure is performed to allow the brain room to swell. Navaira remains in critical condition at Memorial Hermann-TMC.
HOUSTON (March 25, 2008)
Alex Valadka, MD, director of neurotrauma service at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, today began increasing the body temperature of Emilio Navaira from 33 degrees to 37 degrees C.
HOUSTON (March 24, 2008)
Medical update Grammy-award winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira remains in critical condition at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.