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Alexa Bramall, MD, PhD, has been named assistant professor in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, effective May 1, 2023.

Seventeen years ago, Sandra Hillburn’s daughter brought her to a doctor in NYC. The doctor thought Hillburn was having a stroke, and sent her for a CAT scan.

Duke Neurosurgery faculty members Muhammad Abd-El-Barr, MD, PhD, and Oren Gottfried, MD, were part of a team whose proposal, "Using Machine Learning to Appropriately Triage Patients with Low Back Pain," was awarded a grant from the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI).

On March 26, 2023, Duke Neurosurgery and the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke opened the 2023 The International Conference on Brain Tumor Research and Therapy (ICBTRT) in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

A research program established recently at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke will characterize and analyze the interrelated “omics” fields (genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to better understand brain tumor development and progression.

Duke University School of Medicine was awarded more than $527 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2022, ranking ninth nationally among academic medical centers, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

Deb A. Bhowmick, MD, has joined the faculty of Duke Department of Neurosurgery, effective February 1, 2023.

Duke University’s skull base surgery team has been named a Multidisciplinary Team of Distinction by the North American Skull Base Society (NASBS). This designation recognizes a multidisciplinary approach to patient care by a comprehensive team of sub-specialists.

Duke neurosurgeon Muhammad Abd-El-Barr, MD, PhD, has been selected for 2023 Duke Clinical Leadership Program.

Kate McDaniel, PhD, has been named Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the Department of Neurosurgery.