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Katayoun (Kathy) Ayasoufi, PhD, has been named assistant professor in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, effective May 1, 2023.

Duke neurosurgeons have begun a non-invasive program to treat essential tremor using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) — an FDA-approved treatment that can redu

Anthony Filiano, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery in the School of Medicine, is one

Duke University has awarded Distinguished Professorships to 44 faculty members, including Duke Neurosurgery's Gerald Grant, MD, and Matthias Gromeier, MD.

A Duke team has successfully inserted a modified gene into a child’s putamen, a part of the basal ganglia in the brain, to stimulate production of the missing key neurotransmitter dopamine.

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.