Faculty Service, Chair Awards presented at end-of-year faculty meeting
At the Neurology Department's August faculty meeting, Department Chair Richard O'Brien, MD, PhD, and Chief Department Administrator JT Solomon, MBA recognized faculty members for their years of service to Duke and presented the annual Chair's Awards for Diversity, Teamwork, Integrity and Excellence. Read the winners of these awards on our intranet site.
 

Stroke-related grants, awards, and accolades for Xian, El-Husseini, Kam, and Le
Good news sometimes come in fours, at least in the Duke Neurology Department, where four of our faculty and trainees received awards or grants related to stroke this week, including a R01 grant for Ying Xian, MD, PhD, the acceptance of Nada El-Husseini, MD, into the AAN's Transforming Leaders program, Scott Le, DO, having an abstract selected as a top poster for the AHA/ASA, and fellow Wayneho Kam, MD, being an official AHA/ASA blogger. Read more.

Morreene Road team marks anniversary of Perry-Trice’s passing
The staff and faculty at Duke’s Morreene Road Clinic marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of their friend and colleague Peggy Perry-Trice with a tree planting and quiet moments to pay respects. Staff assistant Nina Willis gave out roses for visitors to lay by the tree and marker. "We wanted to pay our respects to Peggy and show that we still love and miss her," Willis said.

Wayneho Kam, MD
Wayneho Kam, MD, first became interested in neurology as an undergraduate student. Since then his path has taken him to Philadelphia and Nashville, as well as to the South American country of Guyana, where he treated patients with stroke, and helped develop an inpatient consult neurology service and a telemedicine program. Kam talks to us about his journey towards practicing vascular neurology, the usual (and unusual) cases he treated in Guyana, and his plans for the future. Read more.