The 20 Best Awake Craniotomy Doctors Near Me

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Allan H. Friedman
Distinguished in Awake Craniotomy

Dr. Allan H. Friedman

Neurosurgery
Duke Health
Duke Cancer Center Brain Tumor Clinic
20 Duke Medicine Cir, 
Durham, NC 
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Accepting New Patients
Offers Telehealth

Distinguished in Awake Craniotomy
Duke Health
Duke Cancer Center Brain Tumor Clinic
20 Duke Medicine Cir, 
Durham, NC 
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Overview

What we specialize in at The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center is compassionate care – we take care of our patients. It’s complete care. The patients don’t have to go out and find a radiologist. We have the radiation oncologist, the chemotherapy, the surgery, the radiology, we have all kinds of nursing people as well as help getting physical therapy and getting in-the-home assistance. Patients also can expect cutting-edge care because we run such a terrific science program here. I really like working with the patients. No question about it. It’s not that I’m doing some trivial procedure six times a day. When someone comes in with a brain tumor, there’s usually some bonding, and instead of running away from that, I really enjoy it.

Dr. Friedman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Awake Craniotomy. His top areas of expertise are Glioma, Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Awake Craniotomy, and Laminectomy.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 120 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Awake Craniotomy.

Specialties
Neurosurgery
Licenses
Neurological Surgery in NC
Board Certifications
American Board Of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery
Hospital Affiliations
Duke Regional Hospital
Duke University Hospital
Languages Spoken
English
German
Gender
Male

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Piedmont
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Locations

Duke Cancer Center Brain Tumor Clinic
20 Duke Medicine Cir, Durham, NC 27710
Call: 919-684-5301

Additional Areas of Focus

Dr. Friedman has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.

Meningioma
Brain Tumor

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


1 Clinical Trials

Perioperative Evaluation of Cerebellar Tumors: Impact of Cerebellar Functional Topography on Cognition and Motor Ataxia
Perioperative Evaluation of Cerebellar Tumors: Impact of Cerebellar Functional Topography on Cognition and Motor Ataxia
Enrollment Status: Active_not_recruiting
Publish Date: November 06, 2025
Intervention Type: Other

119 Total Publications

Takanori Fukushima 1942-2024.
Takanori Fukushima 1942-2024.
Journal: Journal of neurosurgery
Published: October 23, 2025
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  • Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT)
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  • Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumors (DNET)
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  • Embryonal Tumor with Multilayered Rosettes
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  • Acoustic Neuroma
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  • Arachnoid Cysts
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  • Brain Abscess
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  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak
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