Khoi D. Than, MD, has been promoted to professor with tenure at Duke University's Department of Neurosurgery.
Than received his MD from Johns Hopkins University and completed neurosurgery residency at the University of Michigan and a 1-year minimally invasive and complex spine surgery fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. He joined the faculty of Oregon Health & Science University in 2015 and joined the faculty at Duke in 2019.
Than’s research interests are in minimally invasive spinal deformity surgery and outcomes after spine surgery. He has co-authored more than 175 peer-reviewed articles and 30 book chapters.
Than serves on the executive committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons as vice scientific program chair and on the executive committee of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves as education chair. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, North American Spine Society, and Scoliosis Research Society. He serves as associate editor of the journal Neurospine and on the editorial boards of the journals Spine and Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine.