Derek Southwell
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Campus mail:
DUMC 3807, 1542 Blue Zone Duke South, Durham, NC 27710
Phone:
(919) 660-3928
Email address:
derek.southwell@duke.edu
Education and Training
- Residency, Neurosurgery, University of California - San Francisco, 2013 - 2018
- Residency, Neurosurgery, Stanford University, School of Medicine, 2011 - 2013
- M.D., University of California - San Francisco, 2011
- Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco, 2009
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
Selected Grants and Awards
- Neurobiology Training Program
- Advancing the therapeutic potential of inhibitory interneuron transplantation
- Development of a Novel Epilepsy Therapy: Interneuron Transplantation into Human Epileptic Tissue Specimens
- Realistic Measurements of tDCS-Modulated Activity and Electric Fields in the Human Brain In Vivo
- Examining the therapeutic potential of interneuron transplantation in a human organotypic epilepsy model