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Jack Shostak has had essential tremor since he was a child. A condition that ran in his family, essential tremor is a neurologic condition that causes involuntary shaking.

Stephanie Greene, MD, a nationally recognized expert in pediatric vascular neurosurgery and congenital neurosurgical disorders, has been named chief of pediatric neurosurgery and professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics in the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, effective April 30, 2024.

C. Rory Goodwin, MD, PhD, has been named spine services director of the Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis. In this new role, Goodwin will lead all DCBSM spine services.

Simon Gregory, PhD, has been named the Margaret Harris and David Silverman Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at Duke University.

We in Duke Neurosurgery are saddened by the news of the death of Takanori Fukushima, MD, a consulting professor of neurosurgery at Duke University since 1999, and a giant in the field of neurosurgery.

Today, Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, and team were celebrated for hitting the 200-case milestone for laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) cases.

Duke researchers have published a novel protocol for collecting and processing human spinal cord tumors during spine surgery for single-cell studies.

A new study of advancements in immunotherapy for glioma analyzed the 100 most cited papers of the past 20 years and concluded that Duke researchers had made the biggest impact in the field.

World Cancer Day is a day for education and awareness surrounding cancer and its prevention, detection, and treatment.

A groundbreaking clinical trial is taking a new approach to treat seizures: brain cell transplantation.