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First Encounters with the Inner Brain

Thursday, July 11, 2019

By Robin Smith

Standing in a brightly lit teaching lab in the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education, Leonard White pops the lid off a bucket,...Read more

Staff Spotlight: Allison Allen, MSW, LCSW

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

For Allison Allen, MSW, LCSW, the Movement Disorders’ Center’s social worker, a day’s work involves both outreach to help people with living with...Read more

Gable awarded grant to study origins, possible treatments for CIDP

Monday, July 1, 2019

Duke Neurologist, Karissa Gable, MD, is investigating the pathophysiologic mechanisms of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP),...Read more

Duke Neurology Research Round Up, June 2019

Monday, July 1, 2019

This June, the Duke Neurology Department’s Suma Shah, MD, and Christopher Eckstein, MD wrote the first major review article examining the evidence...Read more

Husain, Luedke, and Guhwe complete Duke Clinical Leadership Program

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Congratulations to Aatif Husain, MD, Matthew Luedke, MD, Mary Guhwe, DNP, FNP-BC and the other 21 School of Medicine and Duke Health faculty who...Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Jessica McFarlin, MD

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

As a fellow and junior faculty member in the Duke Neurology Department, Jessica McFarlin, MD, was torn between her desire to practice both...Read more

Staff Spotlight Young Yun

Thursday, June 20, 2019

By Aaliyah Bowden

Young Yun is a research technician in the laboratory of Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD, who uses single cell type sorting techniques to experiment with human...Read more

Ameri, Mayberry win 2019 Appleseed Awards for exceptional teaching and mentoring

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Neurology residents Jordan Mayberry, MD, and Andrew “Nate” Ameri, MD, received Appleseed Resident Teaching Awards to honor their exceptional teaching...Read more

Diagnostic and treatment options expand at Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

By Tim Pittman

The Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is expanding diagnostic and treatment resources as part of a strategic initiative to establish the center as a...Read more

Student Spotlight: Aaliyah Bowden

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Just a few weeks into her internship at the Duke Neurology Department, Aaliyah Bowden is already deeply immersed in neurology, having interviewed...Read more

Registry for Brain Health to enlist North Carolinians into the campaign to understand, treat, and prevent memory disorders

Monday, June 10, 2019

More than 200 memory disorder researchers, community stakeholders for Alzheimer’s disease and aging care, and members of the public gathered in...Read more