Duke Samson, MD

Professor & Chairman
Endowed Title: Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Chair in Mobility Research
Lois C.A. and Darwin E. Smith Distinguished Chair in Neurological Surgery
Neurological Surgery

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-4551

duke.samson@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

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. Dr. Samson is married to Dr. Patricia Bergen, a member of the General Surgery faculty at Southwestern, and they have two children, Loren Daniel Bergen Samson and Gabriel Stanford Bergen Samson.

Education

ResidencyUniversity of Texas Southwestern (1976)
FellowshipKantonsspital, University of Zurich (1973)
FellowshipCentre Medico - Chirurgical Foch (1973)
ResidencyUniversity of Texas Southwestern (1971)
InternshipDuke University Hospital (1970)
Medical SchoolWashington University School of Medicine (1969)

Publications

Featured
Vertebral artery reconstruction for vertebrobasilar insufficiency.

Dexter MA, Samson DS. , Ernst CB, Stanley JC. (eds.) Current Therapy in Vascular Surgery , 1998; :Mosby, Philadelphia

Featured
Surgical treatment of basilar apex aneurysms.

Dexter MA, Samson DS, Batjer HH, Kopitnik TA, Horowitz MB. , Batjer HH, Loftus CM (eds.) Textbook of Neurological Surgery , 1998; :Lippincott-Raven, Phildelphia

Dural Waisting As A Sign Of Subarachnoid Extension Of Cavernous Carotid Aneurysm: A Follow-up Case Report

J. A. White, M.B. Horowitz, D. Samson , Surgical Neurology , December 1999; (52(6)):607-609; Discussion 609-610

Aneurysm Retreatment After Guglielmi Detachable Coil And Nondetachable Coil Embolization: Report Of Nine Cases And Review Of The Literature

M. Horowitz, P. Purdy, T. Kopitnik, K. Dutton, D. Samson , NEUROSURGERY , 1999; (44(4)):712-719 - Discussion 719-720

Multidisciplinary approach to traumatic intracranial aneurysms secondary to shotgun and handgun wounds.

Horowitz MB, Kopitnik TA, Landreneau F, Ramnani DM, Rushing EJ, George E, Purdy PP, Samson D. , Surgical Neurology , 1999; (51(1)):31-41 discussion 41-42

Current Results of the Surgical Management of Aneurysms of the Basilar Apex

D. Samson, H.H. Batjer, T.A. Kopitnik , NEUROSRUGERY , 1999; (44 (4)):697-702; Discussion 702-704

Posteriorinferior cerebellar artery aneurysms, surgical results for 38 patients.

Horowitz M, Kopitnik T, Landreneau F, Krummerman J, Batjer HH, Thomas G, Samson D. , Neurosurgery , 1998; (43(5)):1026-1032

Honors/Awards

Honored Guest Speaker

Southern Neurolosurgical Society (2006)

Honored Guest Speaker

Joint Section - Cerebrovascular Disease (2005)

Honored Guest Speaker

Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons (2005)

Honored Guest Speaker

Rocky Mountain Neurological Society (2002)

Donaghy Lecturer - Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery - American Association of Neurological Surgery

Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery - American Association of Neurological Surgeons (1997)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Neurological Surgeons

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Society of Neurological Surgeons

Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons