Duke Neurosurgery News
Duke Neurosurgery welcomes its newest faculty, Dr. Gavin W. Britz, MD, MPH.
Congrats to Dr. Hamid Aliabadi for winning the 2007 Southern Neurosurgical Society Basic Science Award.
Duke Neurosurgery welcomes its newest faculty, Dr. Carlos Bagley, MD.
Congrats to Dr. Ben Waldau for receiving the 2007 CNS Basic Science/Translational Resident Research Fellowship.
See Dr. John Sampson's latest research on the role of systemic CTLs in gliomas in Clinical Cancer Research 13(7):2158-67, 2007.
See Dr. Shahid Nimjee's recent paper, De-novo formation of cavernous malformations... in Neurosurgical Focus July 2006.
Dr. Rich Osenbach will be co-directing a course on "Neuromodulation for Pain: The Basics at the North American Neuromodulation Society Meeting in December 2006 in Las Vegas; was nominated for the position of Director-At-Large for the American Academy of Pain Medicine (current Chairman of the Membership Committee for that organization); asked to be on the Advisory Committee for the American Medical Associations 6th edition of the "Guides to Permanent Impairment" as an adviser for the new chapter to be included on pain (maldynia).
Dr. Keyne Thomas wins 2006 Pediatric Travelling Fellowship Award from the AANS/CNS.
Dr. Keyne Thomas wins 2006 Augustus McCravey Resident Award from the Southern Neurosurgical Society.
Dr. Keyne Thomas wins 2006 Clinical Resident Award from the Southern Neurosurgical Society.
Dr. Bill Whitlatch receives 2006 NREF award from the AANS and an NIH Clinical Resident Research Award.
Dr. Dan Clayton receives 2006 research fellowship from the Fundamental and Translational Neuroscience Training Program in the Department of Neurobiology at Duke.
Dr. Cory Adamson receives the 2006 Basic Science Research Award at the Southern Neurological Surgery meeting.
Dr. Cory Adamson receives the 2006 Kenneth Shulman award (second time) from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons & Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
The Brain Tumor Center at Duke was featured on 60 Minutes in 2002 (CBS,
"A New Lease on Life") and won the News & Documentary Emmy award for 2003.
Dr. Cory Adamson wins 2002 Kenneth Shulman Award, AANS/CNS Pediatric Section.
Dr. Ketan Bulsara wins 2002 Mayfied Award in Clinical Science, AANS/CNS.
Dr. Kent New wins 2001 National Research and Education Foundation Fellowship
Dr. Dragan Dimitrov wins 2001 William H. Sweet Young Investigator Awards (AANS/CNS Section on Pain), and the Philip L. Gildenberg Resident Award in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (AANS/CNS Section on S&FN).
Dr. Ketan Bulsara wins 2001 Mayfield Award in Basic Science Research (AANS/CNS), the Synthes Award for Brain and Craniofacial Trauma (AANS/CNS), the Kenneth Shulman Award (AANS/CNS Pediatric Section), and a Traveling Fellowship in Neurosurgery, from the AANS/CNS.
Ketan Bulsara publishes first author paper in Nature Neuroscience 4:38-43, 2001.
News Release: "Immunotoxin Being Tested in Patients with Brain Tumors"
Dr. Dragan Dimitrov wins 2000 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow.
Dr. Amy Heimberger wins 2000 Preuss Foundation Resident Research Award, Louise Eisenhardt Resident Travel Scholarship, and AACR/AFLAC Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Amy Heimberger wins 1999 Brain Tumor Society Fellowship for Young Investigators, Southern Neurosurgical Society Resident Award for Clinical/Translational Research, and
Weck Closure System’s Surgical Resident Award for Clinical/Translational Research.
Dr. Russel Margraf wins 1999 American Heart Association Research Fellowship and Southern Neurosurgical Society Resident Clinical Award.
Honors for Duke
Duke University School of Medicine has been consistently named by US News & World Report as one of the best medical schools in the nation.
In what is probably one of the clearest hallmarks of excellence in research, Duke is consistently one of the largest recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Duke Hospital was the cover subject of a special edition of
TIME Magazine that explored the current state of American academic medicine by examining
"A Week in the Life of a Hospital" at Duke.
Discovery Channel broadcast a 13-part primetime documentary series called
"Hospital", focusing on the lives of caregivers and patients at Duke Hospital.
More physicians from Duke are listed in The Best Doctors in America than from any other institution in the Southeastern United States.
Duke Hospital was awarded the 2000 "Consumer Choice" award as the Triangle's top-rated hospital for quality, reputation, and caregiver excellence.
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