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July 21, 2021, is Glioblastoma Awareness Day

The residency program of the Duke Department of Neurosurgery gave their annual faculty and resident awards at the end of the 2020-21 academic year.

Deborah Koltai, PhD, Tony Fuller, MD, of Duke Global Neurosurgery and Neurology (DGNN) were declared winners of a competition sponsored by the Epilepsy Foundation.

Kyle Walsh, PhD, is associate professor and director of the Division of Neuro-Epidemiology in the Department of

Neurosurgeon Derek Southwell, MD, PhD, has been at Duke only since 2019, but he has already expanded the options for epilepsy tre

Duke Neurosurgery resident Daniel Sexton, MD, has been named recipient of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Scholarship in Data Science for 2021. 

Duke neurosurgeon Peter E. Fecci, MD, PhD, was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) at an April 2021 join

At Duke, researchers are using artificial intelligence to building an antomical brain map for each individual patient, which will allow more neurosurgeons to be able to offer deep brain stimulation treatments to people with Parkinson's disease.

On March 19, Duke Neurosurgery Match Day by welcoming three outstanding new residents to our program. 
 

Some people fall into their life’s work by serendipity or happenstance. Annick Desjardins, MD, FRCPC, is not one of those people.