From Surgeries to Switchbacks
Advancing Your Health - 5/20/22
From the top of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States, Crystal Gayle Welcome looked down and considered what it took for her to get there.
Glioblastoma is the Best Known Brain Cancer, but it is Rare
Advancing Your Health - 5/2/22
Just the words “brain cancer” and “glioblastoma” can strike fear into anyone’s heart. And it is very scary to receive such a diagnosis.
Kimberly Hoang Receives Donaldson Charitable Trust Pilot Grant
Emory - 3/14/22
Emory neurosurgeon Kimberly Hoang, MD, has been awarded a pilot grant from the Donaldson Charitable Trust Research Synergy Fund.
Kwanza Warren, First Black Woman Neurosurgery Resident at Emory, Reflects on Making History
11 Alive - 2/18/22
Kwanza Warren broke barriers in the world of medicine when she became the first Black woman neurosurgery resident at Emory University School of Medicine in 2021.
Fans Want Bob Saget's Death Investigated Again
Inside Edition - 2/14/22
Emory neurosurgery professor and chairman Dr. Dan Barrow was on Inside Edition discussing the Bob Saget autopsy. Dr Barrow says injuries are similar to a "serious motor vehicle accident, perhaps assaulted, had a fall down a height, maybe down a flight of stairs."
Emory Neurosurgeon Joins President Biden in Effort to Reduce Cancer Deaths by 50%
WSB Atlanta - 2/3/22
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he was setting a 25-year goal to cut the cancer death rate in half.
Emory Neurosurgeon Helps President Biden Relaunch Cancer Moonshot
Emory - 2/3/22
Edjah Nduom’s parents arrived in the United States from Ghana decades ago with close to nothing. On Wednesday, Nduom stood in the White House to help President Joe Biden unveil a national campaign to end cancer as we know it.
Biden Relaunches Cancer Moonshot
The Hill - 2/2/22
Edjah Nduom, an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, spoke at the event and called the president the country’s “patient advocate in chief” to introduce him.
Biden Aims to Reduce Cancer Deaths by 50% Over Next 25 Years
AJC - 2/2/22
Dr. Edjah Nduom, associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine, introduced the president at Wednesday’s announcement at the White House, calling him the country’s “patient advocate-in-chief.”
Emory Selected to Participate in Largest Grant Ever to Study Adult Hydrocephalus
Emory - 1/24/22
The Emory Brain Health Center has been selected to participate in the Adult Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network’s study on the effectiveness of shunt treatment for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. The $14 million, multi-site grant is funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and is the largest grant ever awarded to study adult hydrocephalus.