Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Neurosurgery
·
2024 - Present
Neurosurgery,
Neurosurgery
Recent Scholarly Works
Internal cerebral vein sacrifice during pineal region epidermoid cyst resection: illustrative case.
Journal article J Neurosurg Case Lessons · July 6, 2026 BACKGROUND: Sacrifice of the internal cerebral vein (ICV) during neurosurgical procedures is exceedingly rare and poorly characterized in the literature. We report the case of a 14-year-old male who sustained an intraoperative right ICV sacrifice during re ... Full text Link to item CiteDecompression with or without Duraplasty for Chiari I and Syringomyelia.
Journal article N Engl J Med · May 28, 2026 BACKGROUND: In children with Chiari type I malformation and syringomyelia, neurosurgical posterior fossa decompression (PFD) provides clinical improvement, but whether duraplasty (incising the dura and placing a dural graft) improves outcomes is unclear. M ... Full text Link to item CiteHemispherotomy for atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor-associated drug-resistant epilepsy: illustrative case.
Journal article J Neurosurg Case Lessons · April 13, 2026 BACKGROUND: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) following treatment for atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT) is rare. The authors report a case in which hemispherotomy was performed to palliate new-onset DRE after ATRT therapy. OBSERVATIONS: A 6-year-old boy ... Full text Link to item CiteEducation
Albany Medical College ·
1998
M.D.
Dartmouth College ·
1993
A.B.