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In early 2020, Heather Moffitt was busy planning a dream trip to Australia with her family.

On July 1, 2024, Duke Neurosurgery welcomes two new faculty members and spine surgeons.

Duke researchers found that breast cancer cells are able to enter the leptomeninges, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) containing membranes that line the brain and the spinal cord, via bone marrow and the surface of emissary veins.

Pam Kohl remembers being told of her stage four metastatic breast cancer diagnosis.

Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-04) introduced a resolution designating the month of June as Brain and Spine Metastasis Awareness Month to recognize and reaffirm the commitment to increasing awareness of treatment options for people with cancer that has spread to the brain or spine.

Brian Moore of South Carolina had lived with debilitating tremors most of his life. He suffers from essential tremor, a nervous system condition that causes uncontrollable shaking.

 

Duke Neurosurgery's Quinn Ostrom, PhD, is senior author of a new statistical report released yesterday

 

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, chief of Duke Spine, has been awarded the Harvey Cushing Medal by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) at their annual meeting in Chicago, May 3-5, 2024.

Jack Shostak has had essential tremor since he was a child. A condition that ran in his family, essential tremor is a neurologic condition that causes involuntary shaking.

Stephanie Greene, MD, a nationally recognized expert in pediatric vascular neurosurgery and congenital neurosurgical disorders, has been named chief of pediatric neurosurgery and professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, effective April 30, 2024.