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A 44-year-old female patient came to Anoop Patel, MD, Duke neurosurgeon, after being diagnosed with a meningioma brain tumor. The patient presented to an ED in South Carolina after experiencing a seizure. 

Nandan Lad, MD, PhD, was inducted to the American Academy of Neurological Surgery at the society’s annual meeting in Athens, Greece.

Duke Neurosurgery faculty member Quinn Ostrom, PhD, is featured on the Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers for the sixth time since 2020. The annual list names researchers who have multiple publications ranked in the top 1% by citation in their fields and are further selected for exemplifying excellence and integrity in their work.

With the increase in quality and decrease in costs, virtual reality is pushing its way into applications its early creators could only dream of—and health care is not exempt from this transformatio

In an underground facility beneath Duke's campus – the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) – researchers are testing a new approach to radiation therapy that could transform how brain t

Megan Phillips has been named the next chief administrative officer for Duke Neurosurgery and Duke Neurology. Phillips has been with Duke Neurology for 15 years, with the last three as the department's chief administrative officer.

Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis director Carey Anders, MD, is the center of a new episode of Breakthrough Women in Science & Medicine. 

Jeffery S. Johns, MD, has been named as the first chief of the newly established Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation by Duke Neurosurgery and Duke Orthopaedics, effective March 23, 2026.

In December 2023, after watching with horror the October 7 attacks and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas, Duke neurosurgeon Dr. David Hasan joined a team of physicians on the first medical mission to Gaza.  

Christina Cone, DNP, MBA, ANP-BC, AOCNP, has been named associate deputy director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke.