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Pam Kohl remembers being told of her stage four metastatic breast cancer diagnosis.

Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-04) introduced a resolution designating the month of June as Brain and Spine Metastasis Awareness Month to recognize and reaffirm the commitment to increasing awareness of treatment options for people with cancer that has spread to the brain or spine.

Brian Moore of South Carolina had lived with debilitating tremors most of his life. He suffers from essential tremor, a nervous system condition that causes uncontrollable shaking.

  Duke Neurosurgery's Quinn Ostrom, PhD, is senior author of a new statistical report released yesterday  

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, chief of Duke Spine, has been awarded the Harvey Cushing Medal by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) at their annual meeting in Chicago, May 3-5, 2024.

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.