Dr. Grant talks to a young patient at bedside

Duke Neurosurgery

Duke represents excellence in neurosurgical care, research, and education. A team of highly skilled neurosurgeons provide comprehensive care for patients in all sub-specialties. Clinicians embrace a multidisciplinary, team-based approach to care, with a commitment to the very best patient outcomes. Duke Neurosurgery excels at translational research, moving innovations rapidly from bench to bedside.

New in Duke Neurosurgery

Duke Neurosurgery resident Alankrita Raghavan, MD, has been named the 2025 Snyderman Award winner for her project,

Brian FitzGerald of South Carolina spent the summer of 2024 looking for answers.

Nanthia Suthana, PhD, studies the neural mechanisms of cognition and behavior. She is especially interested in the complex processes that drive memory and emotion, and in developing therapies using neurostimulation to treat disorders that involve those processes. One such disorder is Alzheimer’s disease, which robs people of their memories. The flip side of that is PTSD, in which many patients are besieged by memories they don’t want.