Burke retires from clinical practice after 33 years
Thirty-three years after joining Duke Neurology, Professor James R. Burke, MD, PhD celebrated his retirement from clinical practice Tuesday night with faculty, staff, and family at Durham's The Pit restaurant. Burke has made many contributions to research for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other neurodegenerative diseases, contributing to more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.
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photo album of the celebration here.
La Spada plots progress leading to vision-saving treatment
Kathryn Demont, National Eye Institute
A therapy designed to prevent blindness in people with the inherited neurodegenerative disorder spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA-7) is nearing the launch pad for testing in clinical trials, said Dr. Albert La Spada, director of the Duke center for Neurodegeneration & Neurotherapeutics. La Spada, who is spearheading the therapy’s development, shared the news at the 11th Sayer Vision Research Lecture.
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Kapuria receives Duke Health's "High Five" award
Congratulations to Chief Resident Abhi Kapuria, MD, who received a "High Five" award. Salley Huff and Samia Aleem wrote, "Dr Kapuria is kind, approachable, brilliant with technology and has innovative ideas for the development of stroke notes. He has not only helped the providers' documentation time but has also helped the CDI specialists, coders and compliance specialists with chart reviews. He is a collaborative team player bridging multiple Departments."
Get your professional portrait photo taken this Wednesday
All members of the Neurology Department are invited to have free professional "headshot" photos taken this Wednesday, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in room 212C of the Seeley Mudd Building in Duke's medical library. Fellows, residents, and faculty who have not had a portrait taken in the past 3 years are especially encouraged to attend. Each session should take about 5 minutes.
Sign up here or swing by for a "walk-in" appointment.
Wuwei “Wayne” Feng, MD, MS
Wuwei “Wayne” Feng, MD, MS was interested in the brain long before he became a neurologist, even taking a skull home with him as a medical student so he could get a better idea of how it protected the body’s most important organ. Now, as our new Stroke and Vascular Neurology Division Chief, Feng is treating patients with stroke and researching ways to use neuromodulation to improve the lives of people living with them. Feng talks to us about his current work, the challenges and opportunities in helping people recover from stroke, and collecting tea and fishing with his family when he’s not at work.
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This yearbook photo from the 1980s shows a graduate of Cromwell High School, who would later attend William and Mary College before earning his MD and PhD from the University of Connecticut. Since then he's been a long-standing member of our Department.