Duc H. Duong,M.D.- Neurosurgery

Dr. Duc Duong graduated from the University of California , Los Angeles in 1983 and from the University of California at Davis , receiving his M.D. in 1987.  He completed his internship in general surgery in 1988 at the Oregon Health Sciences Medical Center and his residency in Neurosurgery, with a fellowship in Neuro-oncology and Epilepsy, in 1992 at the University of Washington .  He gained further training in the areas of pediatric neurosurgery, gamma knife radiosurgery, and  neurovascular surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, the Children’s National Hospital Medical Center, the Royal Victoria Infirmatory and Newcastle General Hospital, and George Washington University Medical Center.  During his education, Dr. Duong has received a number of prestigious honors, America ’s Top Surgeons, Consumer’s Research Council 2002-2003, Strathmore’s Who’s Who 2002-2003, International College of Surgeons Resident Research Award 1996, American Cancer Society Clinical Neuro-Oncology Fellow award in 1992. Dr. Duong is board certified in Neurosurgery and entered practice in 1997.  Besides a very busy practice, Dr. Duong has been involved with 13 research projects, acts as an Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at UCLA, professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosciences at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Sciences, Co-Director of the Kenneth Hahn Stroke and Epilepsy Center, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at UCLA, and Director of Neuroscience in the Physician Assistant Program.  He has been on the teaching faculty with AANS, CNS, and at King/Drew Medical Center and a guest lecturer on a multitude of neuroscience issues, with an emphasis on skull based lesions, epilepsy,  neuro-vascular lesions, and severe traumatic brain injury.