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Head for the Cure 5K 2024

February 28, 2024
Head for the Cure 5K 2024 was an incredible success! A record number of participants gathered at Southern Village in Chapel Hill, NC on Saturday, February 25, 2024 to support Brain Cancer treatment and research. Through incredible community support, Head for the Cure 2024 beat it’s own previous fundraising efforts!...

Neurocritical Care Fellowship ACGME Accredited!

February 28, 2024
  The ºÚÁÏÍø Neurocritical Care fellowship obtained ACGME accreditation in January 2024.  The two-year fellowship graduated the first fellow in 2016 and has expanded to two positions per year since 2018.  The fellows rotate through a 22-bed neurocritical care (NCC) unit and other critical care electives, with an emphasis on milestones...

Dr. Rebecca Traub Elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Neuology

February 20, 2024
Congratulations! Dr. Rebecca Traub has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN). Fellow status recognizes outstanding work and accomplishments in neurosciences, clinical neurology, academic/administrative neurology, within the AAN, and the community. Traub specializes in neuromuscular diseases, as well as inflammatory and hereditary nerve and muscle...

Soma Sengupta MD, Ph.D., MBA, FRCP (UK), FAAN, FANA

February 14, 2024
Dr. Sengupta is a clinical professor and the vice chairs of Philanthropy & Inclusive Excellence & Community Engagement in the Department of Neurology. Born in Kolkata, India, and raised in England, UK. Dr. Sengupta earned her medical degree and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MBA and...

Announcing Adult Neurology Chief Resident 2024-2025

February 8, 2024
The Adult Neurology Residency Program is proud to announce and congratulate Drs. Crooks, Kupcha, and Brown and the 2024 – 2025 Adult Neurology Chief Residents.

ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology Joins NIH StrokeNet Clinical Trials Network

January 23, 2024
This article was originally published by ºÚÁÏÍø on January 9,2024. ºÚÁÏÍø contact: Mark Derewicz, Director of Research News. David Y. Hwang, MD, professor of neurology and division chief of neurocritical care, is co-principal investigator along with colleagues at Duke for a new eastern North...

Promotion – Dr. Olm-Shipman!

January 11, 2024
ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology is please to announce the promotion of Dr. Casey Olm-Shipman from Clinical Assistant Profess to Clinical Associate Professor based on excellence in clinical activity. Dr. Olm-Shipman currently serves as Neurology Vice Chair of Quality Improvement, Interim Leader of ºÚÁÏÍø Hospital Neuroscience Service Line, Associate Director of ºÚÁÏÍø Institute...

Neurology Research Highlights 2023

January 11, 2024
  Clinical Research: Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, MD led the ºÚÁÏÍø MS center to Comprehensive Care recognition. Monica M. Diaz, MD received an Alzheimer’s Association research grant to study frailty and dementia among elderly in Eastern Uganda. Gwenn A. Garden, MD, PhD contributed to understanding microglia in AD (Prater et al.,...

Dr. Monica Maria Diaz highlighted by University of California Global Health Institute

December 15, 2023
Sharing from the University of California’s Global Health Institute: Dr. Stephen Ojiambo Wandera and Dr. Monica Maria Diaz at Makerere University. “The GloCal Health Fellowship is excited to share that two of its alumni are collaborating on a new research study to assess dementia and frailty among older persons in...

ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology Division of Movement Disorders Awarded MSA Center of Excellence!

December 4, 2023
The MSA coalition is the largest non-profit foundation in the US supporting patients/families and researchers in multiple system atrophy, which is a relatively rare but devastating neurodegenerative disease. The Purpose of the MSA Center of Excellence program, which is new as of 2023 (2023 was the first year), is to...