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Some highlights from this past weekend with Puma NXTPRO in Memphis. Averaged 17ppg. Thanks Coach JD Simpson, Save Sports, and Puma! NXTPRO Hoops PRO16/NXTPRO League Save Sports 🏀

Grateful to work w/amazing colleagues Duke University School of Medicine as well as Duke Neurosurgery. This means patients receiving better care, in OR and in clinic! Malcolm R. DeBaun Duke Orthopaedics Shelley Hwang Duke Surgery Sabino Zani Duke Surgery and others!

New pub: rdcu.be/emUKX Minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic anterior lumbar interbody fusion. In quest to minimize the ‘surgical footprint’, these techniques may help. Duke University School of Medicine Isa Decker Mohamad Bakhaidar , Summer Shabana, Meriem Boukhiam, Sabino Zani

By the Grace of God, our daughter Sarra Abdelbarr graduated from Durham Academy! So proud of the strong, young woman she has grown up to be! She will be attending Emory University University in the fall! May God continue to bless, protect and guide her.

Happy to announce inclusion as one of the Neurosurgery and Spine Research All-Stars for 2025! Lab website: neurosurgery.duke.edu/abd-el-barr-lab Research allows us to take better care of patients!

Pub:Spinal Anesthesia Results in Lower Costs Compared to General Anesthesia for Patients Undergoing Lumbar Fusion—A Matched Cohort Study link: mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/1… MDPI Great job by lead author Favour C. Ononogbu-Uche and team

Eid Mubarak (Blessed Eid)!We had the opportunity to do the pilgrimage to Mecca.It was great to see more than 1 million people put their differences aside to pray for God’s Grace and peace.Here’s hoping ALL humanity can do the same.

Saddened to hear about the passing of Dr. Gazi Yasargil- the founding father of micro-neurosurgery. Though I never had the opportunity to learn from him directly, his teachings permeate ALL of neurosurgery. May he rest in peace.

pub: Optimizing TLIF Approach Selection: An Algorithmic Framework with Illustrative Cases mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/1… Because spine spine surgery should NOT be cookie-cutter.  It needs to be patient- and pathology-specific. Huge congrats Duke University School of Medicine Alyssa Bartlett, MPH  and team

Love seeing mentees doing great! Dr. Kelly Wackerle Kelly Ryan Wackerle, MD is Duke Neurosurgery resident alumna and Duke Spine spine fellowship alumna. Doing great things! novanthealth.org/healthy-headli…

Happy Father’s Day! To my father, Dr. Mostafa Abd-El-Barr who is a beacon of light for me and my siblings. To those that are not able to celebrate, prayers that God makes things easier and we can move from war, starvation and distrust to peace, giving and mutual love and respect

Educating the next generation of thought leaders and excellent surgeons is one of the most enjoyable parts of my job Duke Neurosurgery. We have a surgical coaching curriculum.  Was pleasantly surprised when they gave me this Thank You note recently.

Curious how to translate your research into compelling social media content? Please join us for our upcoming event, "#ShareYourScience: How to Talk Research on Social Media" with Dr. Samantha Spellicy and Dr. Faith Robertson, next Thursday, June 26th at 7 PM CT!

Amazing research Duke Neurosurgery  at Research Symposium.Celebrating the graduation of chief residents, Dr. Jihad Abdelgadir,Alex Suarez, Daniel Sextion.It was also nice to receive the Resident Research Mentoring Award.

Attention neurosurgeons doing skull-base cases in low- and low-middle-income countries! One of our residents, Syed Adil, MD is studying the current capacities for and challenges in these endeavors. Please take < 10 minutes to complete this survey: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cN…

Pushing the envelope is not easy.But when it culminates in great patient outcome and grateful patients, it’s worth it. Male patient in late 70s underwent a standalone laprascopic L5S1 ALIF with DaVinci robot in collab with Dr. Sabino Zani. And yes, no more big incisions in front.

Annual North Carolina Spine Society meeting got off to a great start with opening remarks by President Dr. Melissa Erickson, MD, MBA. www2.ncmedsoc.org/north-carolina… Looking forward to great weekend of great science and camaraderie

Amazing 2 days of amazing science and also talking about difficult subjects such as gender inequities in spine surgery and surgeon burnout at North Carolina Spine Society. Great to see young college students, medical students, residents present. Can’t forget Coach K as well!

Congratulations to Alyssa Bartlett Alyssa Bartlett, MPH for winning top abstract at North Carolina Spine Society Meeting 2025 - Simultaneous Prone Lateral Interbody Fusion and Osteotomy for Severe Deformity Correction Great to see bright young minds tackling difficult subjects

New pub: Robotic assisted anterior lumbar interbody fusion with the use of indocyanine green and posterior spinal fusion doi.org/10.3171/2025.4… Kudos Duke University School of Medicine Isabelle Decker, Evelyn Hunter, Duke Spine fellow Dr. Lauren Seo, Dr.Sabino Zani, Melissa Erickson, MD, MBA .