Emory University School of Medicine
Edjah K. Nduom, MD, is the Daniel Louis Barrow Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Nduom obtained his B.S. in Biomechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2002 and subsequently obtained his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He then pursued Neurosurgical training in the Department of Neurosurgery at Emory University. During residency, he was awarded an NIH R25 Research Development. He completed an in-folded Research Fellowship in Neurosurgical Oncology in the Surgical Neurology Branch in 2012. Dr. Nduom completed his neurosurgical training in 2013 and then pursued an additional Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where he was awarded the Jesse H. Jones Fellowship in Cancer Education.
After completing his residency training, Edjah joined the faculty of the Surgical Neurology Branch of the NINDS Intramural Research Program as a Staff Clinician in August 2015, and he became an Assistant Clinical investigator in 2019. He left the NIH to take a position at Emory in September of 2020. Dr. Nduom is a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and he serves as Member at Large on the Winship Executive Council. His research focuses on the modulation of the immune system for the treatment of brain tumors. He has presented his translational and clinical work at numerous national and international meetings, and his work is supported by the National Institutes of Health and several private foundations. A fellowship-trained and board-certified neurosurgical oncologist, Dr. Nduom's clinical specialty is the surgical management of brain and spinal cord tumors. He is particularly interested in the safe resection of malignant tumors located in eloquent areas of the brain, the brainstem and spinal cord.
