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 John
Duncan, III, MD, PhD
John Duncan III, MD, PhD, is the chief of neurosurgery
at Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, and The Miriam
Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also an associate professor
in the department of clinical neurosciences (neurosurgery) and the
department of pediatrics at Brown Medical School, where he also
directs the neurosurgery residency training program.
He specializes in neuro-oncology, epilepsy surgery, and pediatric
neurosurgery. His practice includes many patients with tumors of
the brain or spinal cord. He also treats people with deformities
such as Chiari malformation, spina bifida, tethered cord and hydrocephalus.
Duncan led a medical and surgical team that performed a groundbreaking
type of surgery on the world's youngest patient. The new form of
inoperative radiation therapy (IORT) called INTRABEAM was used to
prevent recurrence of a metastatic brain lesion in a 4-year-old
boy. The patient was the youngest in the world to receive radiation
therapy during surgery for a brain tumor.
Duncan received his medical degree from Rutgers University, where
he also earned a PhD in physiology. He went on to Stanford University
for an internship in general surgery, followed by residencies there
in neuropathology and neurological surgery. Subsequently, he completed
two fellowships: one in neurology at London's National Hospital,
the other in pediatric neurosurgery at Toronto's Hospital for Sick
Children.
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