Dubbed by D Magazine as "The Most Interesting Neurosurgeon in the World": “He knows how to throw a punch, fire a pistol, and he wrote the book on brain surgery.” We are honored to have Dr. Duke Samson and the UT Southwestern Medical Center on our side for the treatment of cavernous angiomas.

Dr. Samson has graciously donated UT Southwestern monogrammed scrubs worn during his landmark 4000^th aneurysm surgery - complete with American flag scrub cap. If there were a competition, 4000+ aneurysm surgeries must place Dr. Samson in the lifetime top five. These scrubs are part of an amazing legacy, and we're sure his patients would feel privileged to have them.

Duke Samson was born in January 1943 in Odessa,Texas. Following graduation from Odessa High School in 1961, he attended Stanford University, where he majored in psychology and played intercollegiate football and rugby. He graduated from Washington University Medical School in 1969 and completed a surgical internship at Duke University Medical Center. His neurosurgical residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School was highlighted by a fellowship with Professor Gerard Guiot in Paris and Professor M.G. Yasargil in Zurich. Dr. Samson entered the United States Army Medical Corps in 1975, serving both at Clark Air Force Base in the Republic of the Philippines and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 1977 he joined the faculty at Southwestern, focusing his clinical and investigative interests on vascular diseases of the nervous system. Dr. Samson was promoted to Professor of Surgery in 1984 and assumed the chairmanship of the Division of Neurological Surgery the following year. In 1988, neurosurgery at Southwestern achieved departmental status and he accepted the W. Kemp Clark Chair, established in honor of the division’s first chairman. On sabbatical leave from the chairmanship in 1998, Dr. Samson was named Director of the Mobility Foundation, a multi-disiplinary center dedicated to clinical research in cerebrovascular disease and spinal cord injury. He currently holds the Lois C.A. and Darwin E. Smith Distinguished Chair in Neurological Surgery. 

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