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Peter Edward Fecci

Professor of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
201 Sands Bldg., Box 3050, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Presentations & Appearances


From Forgotten to Focus: The Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis · 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke Oncology Network, Durham, NC
Filling a Void: The Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis - Grand Rounds · 2018 Invited Talk Duke Dept of Hematology Oncology, Durham, NC
Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermal Therapy: A Minimally Invasive Tool for Lesion Ablation - Grand Rounds · 2018 Invited Talk Duke Dept of Neurology, Durham, NC
Arresting Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration in GBM · 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium National Brain SPORE Meeting, Amelia Island, FL
Forging an Academic Neurosurgery Career · 2018 National Scientific Meeting Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Houston, TX
An Update on Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma · 2018 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA
An Update on Glioma Reclassification: Distilling it down to what you need to know · 2018 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA
Trapped! A T cell Horror Story in GBM · 2018 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, New Orleans, LA
Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermal Therapy: A Minimally Invasive Tool for Lesion Ablation · 2018 Visiting Professorship Lecture Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Arresting Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration in GBM · 2018 International Meeting or Conference International Conference on Brain Tumor Research and Therapy, Solstrand, Norway
Arresting Bone Marrow T cell Sequestraiton in GBM - Duke Cancer Review · 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke Cancer Institute, Cary, NC
Sad, Scrawny, and Sequestered: The Plight of the T cell in GBM · 2017 Visiting Professorship Lecture National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
An Update on Intracranial Tumors: From Mutations to Lasers to T cells · 2017 Invited Talk Johnston-Willis Hospital, Richmond, VA
Countering T cell Exhaustion: Awakening the Anti-Glioma Immune Response · 2017 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium National Brain SPORE Meeting, Cary, NC
Filling the Void: The Duke Center for Brain Metastasis - Annual Meeting of the Shingleton Society · 2017 Keynote/Named Lecture Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC
Lost and Found: Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration and GBM · 2017 Visiting Professorship Lecture Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
An Update on Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma · 2017 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA
Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermal Therapy: A Minimally Invasive Tool for Lesion Ablation - Grand Rounds · 2017 Lecture Duke Dept of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
Forging a Career as a Physician (or even Neurosurgeon) Scientist - Annual Retreat · 2017 Keynote/Named Lecture Medical Scientist Training Program, Wilmington, NC
Sad, Scrawny, and Sequestered: The Plight of the T cell in GBM · 2017 Visiting Professorship Lecture University Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Sad, Scrawny, and Sequestered: The Plight of the T cell in GBM - The Christopher Davidson Forum · 2017 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermal Therapy: A Minimally Invasive Tool for Lesion Ablation · 2017 Visiting Professorship Lecture University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermal Therapy: A Minimally Invasive Tool for Lesion Ablation · 2017 Visiting Professorship Lecture Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL
Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma: Opportunities for Interface with Industry · 2017 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA
An Update on Glioma Reclassification: Distilling it down to what you need to know · 2017 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA
Forging an Academic Neurosurgery Career - R25 Workshop · 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Forging an Academic Neurosurgery Career · 2016 National Scientific Meeting Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, CA
Barriers to Effective Immunotherapy in GBM: A Primer on T cell Dysfunction - Annual Retreat · 2016 Keynote/Named Lecture Duke Dept of Pathology, Durham, NC
Barriers to Effective Immunotherapy in GBM: A Primer on T cell Dysfunction · 2016 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, Scottsdale, AZ
Informed Immunity: Steering the Ship Toward Intolerance · 2016 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, Scottsdale, AZ
Clinical Trials Update: Act IV · 2016 National Scientific Meeting Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, CA
Barriers to Effective Immunotherapy in GBM: A Primer on T cell Dysfunction - The Christopher Davidson Forum · 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration and GBM · 2016 Visiting Professorship Lecture New York University, New York, NY
Vaccines and Other Immunotherapies for Glioblastoma (Made Easy) · 2016 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Chicago, IL
An Update on Glioma Reclassification: Distilling it down to what you need to know · 2016 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Chicago, IL
GBM: A Propagator of Ignorance · 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Sontag Foundation, Palm Springs, CA
T cell Dysfunction in GBM: Barriers to Effective Immunotherapy · 2016 International Meeting or Conference Prince Mahidol Award Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration and GBM: The Dilemma of the T cell Ignoramus · 2016 International Meeting or Conference International Conference on Brain Tumor Research and Therapy, Okinawa, Japan
An Update on Surgical Thinking for Brain Tumors: A Practical, Bottom-Line Guide to Incoporating New Understanding - Grand Rounds · 2016 Lecture Duke Dept of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
Cancer Vaccines for Glioblastoma (Made Easy) · 2016 International Meeting or Conference Prince Mahidol Award Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
Mechanisms of Immunosuppression in Glioblastoma · 2015 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, San Antonio, TX
Barriers to Effective Immunotherapy in GBM: A Primer on T cell Dysfunction · 2015 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, San Antonio, TX
Cancer Vaccines for Glioblastoma · 2015 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, San Antonio, TX
The Glioblastoma Tumor Microenvironment: Breaking the Stalemate, Battling T-cell Exhaustion along the Road to Rejection · 2015 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, D.C.
Balancing the Attack: Research and clinical innovations in the treatment of intracranial tumors - Grand Rounds · 2015 Invited Talk Duke Dept of Neurology, Durham, NC
Lost and Found: Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration and GBM · 2014 Visiting Professorship Lecture Cornell University, New York, NY
Lost and Found: Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration and GBM · 2014 Visiting Professorship Lecture Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Lost and Found II: The Bone Marrow as Harbor for Lost T-cells in Patients and Mice with Glioblastoma - Brain Tumor Center Lecture Series · 2014 Invited Talk Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke, Durham, NC
Lost and Found: Therapeutic Implications of Bone Marrow as Harbor for Lost T-cells in Glioma - Grand Rounds · 2013 Lecture Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Neurosurgery, Boston, MA
Of Mice and Men · 2013 National Scientific Meeting Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA
Lost and Found: Bone Marrow T cell Sequestration and GBM · 2013 National Scientific Meeting American Academy of Neurological Surgeons, Newport Beach, CA
Lost and Found II: The Bone Marrow as Harbor for Lost T-cells in Patients and Mice with Glioblastoma - Grand Rounds · 2013 Lecture Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Neurosurgery, Boston, MA
Malignant Brain Tumors: The Path to Intolerance · 2013 Visiting Professorship Lecture University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Lost and Found: Therapeutic Implications of Bone Marrow as Harbor for Lost T-cells in Glioma · 2013 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA
Lost and Found: Therapeutic Implications of Bone Marrow as Harbor for Lost T-cells in Glioma · 2013 National Scientific Meeting New England Neurosurgical Society, Brewster, MA
Of Mice and Men · 2013 National Scientific Meeting New England Neurosurgical Society, Brewster, MA
Malignant Brain Tumors: The Path to Intolerance · 2012 Visiting Professorship Lecture Montreal Neurologic Institute, Montreal, Quebec, CA
Malignant Brain Tumors: The Path to Intolerance · 2012 Lecture Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Malignant Brain Tumors: The Path to Intolerance - Grand Rounds · 2012 Lecture Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Neurosurgery, Boston, MA
Fostering Intolerance: Preclinical modeling of CTLA-4 Blockade in Glioblastoma · 2012 National Scientific Meeting Society for Neuro-Oncology, Washington, D.C.
Glioblastoma: Ushering in a New Standard of Care - Grand Rounds · 2009 Lecture Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Neurosurgery, Boston, MA
The Role of Regulatory T-cells as Barriers to Cellular and Anti-tumor Immunity in Patients with Malignant Glioma · 2006 Keynote/Named Lecture Society for Neuro-Oncology, Orlando, FL
Partnering Regulatory T-cell Depletion with Radiotherapy · 2006 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA

Academic & Administrative Activities


Director, Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis
Director, Duke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program
Associate Deputy Director, Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke
Associate Program Director, Duke Neurosurgery Residency
Director, Duke Neurosurgery Clinical Research Unit
Director for Third Year Research in the Neurosciences, Duke University School of Medicine