Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, professor of neurosurgery and director of the Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis (DCBSM), recently accepted the position of chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at University of Colorado School of Medicine and will leave Duke at the end of June 2025. Under Dr. Fecci’s leadership the DCBSM has been one of the fastest-growing clinical programs at Duke.
With Fecci’s departure, Carey Anders, MD, professor of medicine at Duke, will be stepping into the role of director of the DCBSM. Anders is currently the center’s co-director.
Additionally, neurosurgery faculty Anoop Patel, MD, and Jordan Komisarow, MD, will be promoted in DCBSM leadership roles. Patel will move from surgical director to co-director of the center, and Komisarow, currently the deputy surgical director, will be promoted to surgical director.
These appointments follow the December 2024 naming of Laura Alder, MD, and Trey Mullikin, MD as deputy medical director and deputy spine services director, and last year’s promotion of Rory Goodwin, MD, PhD, to spine services director.
DCBSM brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts who seek new answers for patients whose cancer has spread to the brain or spine. Duke offers some of the most advanced treatments, even for patients who may have been told they are out of options.