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Yi Zhang, PhD,  has been named assistant professor in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, effective January 1, 2024.  Zhang’s lab focuses on computational biology, bioinformatics, and machine learning in genomics. She is a faculty member in the Brain Tumor Omics Program in the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.

Heather Gensler spent two years being told that, “if it hurts, it’s not cancer.”

Duke Neurosurgery faculty member Quinn Ostrom, PhD, has been named to the official list of Clarivate’s Most Highly Cited Scientists for the second year in a row.

Since 2007, Duke neurosurgeon Michael Haglund, MD, PhD, has twice-yearly led humanitarian and training missions to the African country of Uganda. The purpose of the trips is to provide care for patients, equipment for hospitals, and training for neurosurgery residents there.

A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say.

Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, was granted membership to the American Academy of Neurological Surgery at the society’s annual meeting last month in Sea Island, Georgia.

A 60-year-old male presented to functional neurosurgeon Stephen C. Harward II, MD, PhD, with severe essential tremor (ET), a history of hypertension, and von Willebrand disease (VWD) Type 2B.

Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis Center Co-Director Carey Anders, MD, was featured in the October issue of HemOnc Today.

In November 2022, Mary McQueen started feeling like some of the toes on her right foot were asleep. The tingling sensation moved to her left toes, then her entire right foot.

Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis Deputy Director of Palliative Care, Chris Jones, MD, FAAHPM, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Palliative Medicine.