The Duke Neuropathology Fellowship Program is an ACGME-accredited two-year fellowship that provides eligibility for American Board of Pathology certification in Neuropathology. Our program aims to graduate future leaders and innovators in Neuropathology diagnostics, research, teaching, and patient-centered care. This is an academic fellowship program with high expectations for diagnostic, teaching and research achievement, and the flexibility to design your own educational program.

• Participation in a high-volume, high-complexity diagnostic neuropathology practice
• Faculty expertise in surgical and autopsy neuropathology, muscle and nerve pathology, surgical and autopsy ophthalmic pathology, neurodegenerative disorders, and molecular diagnostics
• Meaningful graduated responsibility: senior NP fellows render frozen section diagnoses independently, with indirect attending supervision
• Training in molecular, enzyme histochemical, and ultrastructural diagnostics
• Formal off-campus rotation in molecular diagnostics at Foundation Medicine
• Involvement in brain bank and clinical laboratory management
• Opportunities to lead interspecialty clinicopathologic conferences and tumor boards
• Teach medical students, residents and fellows in pathology, neurosurgery, neurology, rheumatology, and ophthalmology
• 6-12 months of the NP fellowship are scheduled for research in basic/applied neuroscience
• Funding is provided for academic publication and attendance at academic conferences

Applicants must be board-certified or board-eligible in Anatomic Pathology.

Types and Number of Appointments

One fellow is accepted each academic year, with 2 fellows (one senior, one junior) training each year

Stipends

Commensurate with year of post graduate training.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must have completed an ACGME-accredited pathology residency program and be Board Certified or eligible in AP/CP or AP. The Department of Pathology sponsors J1 Visa applications.

Please submit the following documents:

• College of American Pathologists Standardized Application for Pathology Fellowships with signature (Click here for application)
• Personal statement
• Curriculum Vitae
• Cover Letter
• ECFMG certificate (if applicable)
• Copies of USMLE/COMLEX transcripts
• Three letters of recommendation addressed to Dr. Karra Jones (including one from your residency Program Director)

Email your package to Program Coordinator Brittany Harris.

Karra Jones, MD, PhD, program director, section head of Muscle and Nerve Pathology, Neuromuscular and Peripheral Nervous System Pathology, Surgical Neuropathology, Autopsy Neuropathology, Muscular dystrophy and Myopathy Research. Director of our Electron Microscopy and Immunochemistry Laboratory (EM/ICL).

Anne F Buckley, MD, PhD, former program director, Neurodevelopment and Neuro-oncogenesis Research, Neuromuscular and Peripheral Nervous System Pathology, Surgical Neuropathology, Autopsy Neuropathology, Ultrastructural Pathology, Medical and Transplant Renal Pathology

Thomas J Cummings, MD, division chief, Surgical Neuropathology, Ophthalmic Pathology, Orthopedic Pathology

Giselle López, MD, PhD,  Surgical Neuropathology, Autopsy Neuropathology, Brain Tumor Research

Shih-Hsiu Jerry Wang, MD, PhD, Surgical Neuropathology, associate director of Autopsy Pathology, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Neuropathology Core Leader, Director, Bryan Brain Bank and Biorepository

Neuropathology Fellowship Application PDF

• 2021-2023 Fellowship: Filled
• 2022-2024 Fellowship: Filled
• Accepting applications for 2023-2025: Open
• Accepting applications for 2024-2026: Open
• Accepting applications for 2025-2027: May 1, 2023, until filled

Address inquiries to:

Brittany Harris
Program Coordinator
Department of Pathology
Duke University Medical Center
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Patricia Pittman, MD, 2019-2021: Neuropathologist and oncologic pathologist at Caris Life Sciences

Janice Ahn, MD, 2018-2020: Neuropathologist at Allegheny General Hospital

William Harrison, MD, 2017-2019: Neuropathologist and assistant professor of Pathology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine