Duke offers a one-year ACGME-accredited fellowship in stroke/vascular neurology. Candidates must have completed an approved neurology residency and be ABMS neurology board eligible or certified.
Our Vascular Neurology Fellowship program is directed by Nada El Husseini, MD, MHSc, FAHA, FAAN and includes a multidisciplinary faculty including vascular neurologists, neurointensivists, neurorehabilitation specialists, radiologists, cardiologists and neurosurgeons and surgeons.
Fellows receive competitive salary and benefits at the PGY-5 level. In addition, the fellow will receive a stipend to attend at least one national/international stroke meeting a year.
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| Type of Experience | Structure | Amount of Time |
|---|---|---|
| Stroke fellow continuity clinic | Outpatient clinic staffed with stroke attending | ½ day a week (except when rotating in the neuro-intensive care unit) |
| Vascular neurology inpatient care | Stroke stepdown and floor, acute stroke management in the Emergency Department | 24 weeks |
| Neurocritical care | Neurointensive care unit | 4 weeks |
| Neuroradiology |
Neuroradiology reading with neuroradiology attending, neurointerventional cases with neurointerventional team |
3 weeks |
| Neurosonology | Rotation in TCD and carotid duplex lab, attend neurosonology course | 3 weeks |
| Elective |
The fellow can select from the following: fellow specialty clinic, stroke consults, psychiatry, neurohospitalist rotation at Duke Regional Hospital, or from other topics |
4 weeks |
| Outpatient rehabilitation | Lenox Baker Children's Hospital (Duke) | 2 weeks |
| Inpatient rehabilitation | Duke Rehabilitation Institute at Duke Regional Hospital | 2 weeks |
| Research | Supervised research | 6 weeks |
| Vascular neurology emergency care | Stroke code team | Daytime hours (during inpatient stroke rotation) |
| Telestroke | Consulting remotely via video platform for acute stroke management | 6 weeks |
Didactic series:
- Stroke invited speaker series
- Stroke case conference
- Practice guideline review
- Journal club
- Combined neurovascular/interventional/radiology case conference
- Grand rounds
- Safety event analysis
Application for the vascular neurology fellowship program opens in December, 18-months before the starting date (for example, applications for a start date of July 2027 open in December 2025). To apply, please use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
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More than 1,000 GME residents and fellows train at Duke Health, in programs ranging from very small sub-specialty fellowships to large specialty programs. Each person makes Duke Health special—providing opportunities to forge enduring relationships with world-class faculty, resident and fellow colleagues, other members of the health care team, and most importantly, patients and families. U.S. News & World Report ranks our training programs among the top programs in the nation.
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Duke's Graduate Medical Education programs have more than 1,000 GME trainees here in programs ranging from very small subspecialty fellowships to large core specialty programs. Trainees come from schools all over the United States and dozens of countries. Each program has its own personality but all of our program directors share our GME staff’s commitment to providing an outstanding educational experience for every trainee. Learn more about Graduate Medical Education at Duke at their Training Programs page and in the Applicants section of their website.
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Christine Berry
Program Coordinator
Nada El Husseini, MD, MHSc, FAHA, FAAN
Director, Vascular Fellowship Program
Brian Mac Grory, MB BCh, BAO, MRCP
Associate Director, Vascular Fellowship Program
