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Duke Neurosurgery Chief Administrator Kathy Tobin has been named chair of the Education Committee for the Neurosurgery Executives' Resource Value & Education Society (NERVES). This appointment follows  previous appointments to Southeast Regional Director of the society and the Liaison to the Practice Management Committee of the AANS, roles she still holds.

The Institutional Committee for Graduate Medical Education has selected Andrew Cutler, MD, a fifth year resident in Neurosurgery, as the recipient of the annual Ralph Snyderman, MD, GME Research Award. Established in 2004, the award recognizes excellence in graduate medical research.

Fourth year Neurosurgery resident Vikram Mehta, MD, has been awarded a grant from the North Carolina Spine Society. The grant wlll fund research for Mehta's research, Tethering in the Prevention of Proximal Junctional Kyphosis After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery.  

Pride Month commemorates the years of struggle for civil rights and equal justice under the law for the LGBTQ community. June was designated Pride Month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York City.

In the midst of a pandemic, our country is faced with another horror. The death of George Floyd, on the heels of the shootings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, is almost too much as a country to bear.

To honor nurses during Neuroscience Nurses Week 2020, Duke Neurosurgery faculty take time to say thank you in this video.

Current surgical therapies for epilepsy, such as brain resection, laser ablation, and neurostimulation, target epileptic networks on macroscopic scales, without directly correcting the circuit-level aberrations responsible for seizures. The transplantation of inhibitory cortical interneurons represents a novel neurobiological method for modifying recipient neural circuits in a physiologically corrective manner.

Duke University School of Medicine has awarded the Rory David Deutsch Professor of Neuro-Oncology distinguished professorship to David Ashley, MBBS, PhD. Ashley is a Duke Neurosurgery faculty member and director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke.

The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) has announced support for 11 high-potential innovation projects, including two led by Duke Neurosurgery faculty. The projects focus on novel strategies to improve value of care delivery, enhancing provider and staff experience and well-being, enhancing patient engagement and experience, and accelerating population health solutions and strategies.

Duke neurosurgeon Nandan Lad, MD, PhD, was interviewed for a piece in the May 2020 issue of Men's Health magazine about the routines that allow him to maintain health and focus.