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55Total
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4Rank Based on
Funding by NIH

24Percent of Residents
Are Women

5,543Surgical Cases FY19

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New in Duke Neurosurgery

09/10/2020
Duke neurosurgeon offers awake spine surgery
When you don’t want to miss a thing Duke neurosurgeon offers awake, robotic spine fusion surgery to patients   Janie Colvin of Fairfax, Virginia, had never had surgery, except for a C-section with her second child. So when the 63-year-old... Read More
08/05/2020
Priscilla Graham Earns Winn Award for Achievements in Diversity and Inclusion
Priscilla Graham, human resources director in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, received the staff award in the Michelle P. Winn Inclusive Excellence Award program, which celebrates exceptional achievements in diversity and inclusion... Read More
07/22/2020
The Goals of Care — Is There a (Black) Doctor in the House?
07/20/2020
Williamson named REACH scholar
Duke Neurosurgery resident Theresa Williamson, MD,  has been named one of two winners of a Duke REACH Equity Center Research Scholar Award for early-stage investigators interested in health disparities.  
 “We are very glad to have... Read More
07/10/2020
Living a Full Life with Stage 4 Cancer
Duke neurosurgeon Rory Goodwin, MD, PhD, in his lab   In November 2017, Katie Mackin was a 34-year-old mother of a six-month-old baby when she felt something in her back pop. Mackin is a physician assistant in an orthopedic practice,... Read More
06/30/2020
Brain and Spine Mets Team Featured in Publication
The Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis is featured on the cover of the summer 2020 issue of BreakThroughs, a publication of the Duke Cancer Institute. Read more about the work of this amazing team here.  
06/26/2020
Southwell Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Derek Southwell, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, has been awarded the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. This award is one of the most prestigious fellowships for young... Read More
06/17/2020
Bias in brain injury: A new study
  From the Duke Health News Office   Socioeconomic Factors Appear to Influence How Brain Injuries are Treated Race, geography and payment status were associated with treatment withdrawal   A Duke Health analysis of treatments for... Read More
06/16/2020
Duke Tops in NC for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Duke Children’s was the highest ranked for neurology and neurosurgery in North Carolina in the most recent rankings by US News & World Report. 
 “Every day, our goal is to provide the very best care to children with... Read More
06/12/2020
Kathy Tobin Named to Leadership of National Society
  Duke Neurosurgery Chief Administrator Kathy Tobin has been named chair of the Education Committee for the Neurosurgery Executives' Resource Value & Education Society (NERVES). This appointment follows  previous appointments to... Read More

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