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32Clinical
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24Percent of Residents
Who Are Women

5,364Surgical Cases FY19

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Herb FuchsThe Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program

 

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craniosynostosisDuke Neurosurgery will host the
International Conference on Brain Tumor Research and Therapy

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12/05/2019
Accelerating Immunotherapy
by Angela Spivey Translating findings from a lab into patients in a clinic can be a long slog up a steep hill. The new Center for Cancer Immunotherapy helps researchers with the climb.   It’s August 2019, and Duke Professor of Immunology... Read More
11/26/2019
Getting to Know Peter Fecci
Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, grew up on Long Island, NY,  graduated from Cornell University, and went on to medical school at Duke. In his second year of at Duke, he began the MD-PhD program and became John Sampson’s first graduate student.... Read More
11/12/2019
Mehta Named a CNS Fellow
Vikram Mehta, MD, MPH, fourth-year resident at Duke Neurosurgery, has been accepted into the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Resident Fellows Program for a two-year term.   The program enables neurosurgeons-in-training to... Read More
11/08/2019
Team to Study Technology With the Potential to Enhance Artificial Speech
Duke Neurosurgery's Gregory Cogan, PhD, is principal investigator of a newly funded study that will explore a promising new technology that constructs speech directly from the brain. The multidisciplinary research aims to advance our... Read More
10/29/2019
Training Grant Awarded by NIH
Congratulations to Peter Fecci, MD, PhD (left) and John Sampson, MD, PhD, principal investigators of a newly awarded NINDS Research Education Grant for Residents and Fellows and Fellows. The grant funds one resident per year to conduct... Read More
10/14/2019
Neurosurgery Professors Lead Collaborative Research in Uganda
There are 32 neurosurgeons at Duke, but the entire country of Uganda has fewer than half that number. Professor of Neurosurgery Michael Haglund is committed to helping Uganda increase its neurosurgical capacity. He leads Duke Global... Read More
09/03/2019
Duke Performs First DBS Procedures for Epilepsy
A Duke neurologist and neurosurgeon have collaborated to perform the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures for epilepsy in North Carolina, offering a new option for patients who experience seizures that cannot be successfully... Read More
07/16/2019
Measuring the Impact of Waiting on Patient Satisfaction
A comprehensive, 15-month assessment of the patient experience in the Duke Spine Center demonstrates that longer waiting times have a measurable negative effect on patient satisfaction and on the overall perception of the patient-... Read More
06/27/2019
Getting to Know Allison Spell
Allison Spell’s career started in hospitality, working in conference services for the Washington Duke Inn and with sales at the Umstead Hotel and Spa. She realized she really liked helping people, and she’s never stopped. Allison is a... Read More
06/05/2019
Francis Ali-Osman Honored as Distinguished Faculty Emeritus
Francis Ali-Osman, MD, FACS, DSc, professor emeritus in the Department of Neurosurgery, was honored among the 2019 Distinguished Emeriti Faculty of Duke School of Medicine at a dinner on June 4, 2019. Ali-Osman is a pioneer of brain tumor... Read More

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