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Dorlan J Kimbrough

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Neurology, MS & Neuroimmunology
DUMC Box 3849, Durham, NC 27710
40 Duke Medicine Circle, Clinic 1L, Durham, NC 27710

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Neurology · 2020 - Present Neurology, MS & Neuroimmunology, Neurology
4100 Medical Director in the Department of Neurology · 2022 - Present Neurology, Clinical Science Departments

Recent News Items


Published April 15, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines Are Entering Uncharted Immune Territory
Published December 10, 2020
National Multiple Sclerosis Society Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine
Published November 12, 2020
Faculty Spotlight

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Recent Scholarly Works


Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2024 revisions of the McDonald criteria.

Journal article Lancet Neurol · October 2025 Advances in the understanding of multiple sclerosis and the development of biomarkers of pathophysiology prompted a substantial revision of the 2017 McDonald diagnostic criteria. The new 2024 McDonald criteria provide a unified approach for diagnosing mult ... Full text Link to item Cite

Differential diagnosis of suspected multiple sclerosis: considerations in people from minority ethnic and racial backgrounds in North America, northern Europe, and Australasia.

Journal article Lancet Neurol · October 2024 The differential diagnosis of suspected multiple sclerosis has been developed using data from North America, northern Europe, and Australasia, with a focus on White populations. People from minority ethnic and racial backgrounds in regions where prevalence ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Defining Epstein-Barr virus reservoirs and EBV-regulated gene expression in multiple sclerosis

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2025 - 2027

RNAs in transcriptional regulation & dosage compensation

ResearchResearch Assistant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2003

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Education


Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine · 2007 M.D.