Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
- Associate Professor in Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
- Associate Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Contact Information
- Office Location: 303 Research Drive, Box 3050, Durham, NC 27710
- Email Address: patrick.codd@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- M.D. Harvard Medical School, 2008
- Massachusetts General Hospital, 2009
- Massachusetts General Hospital, 2014
Courses Taught
- NEUROSCI 493: Research Independent Study 1
- ME 592: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- ME 492: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 491: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
- ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
In the News
- Duke MEDx: A Better Way to Clean Public Spaces, Reduce Disease Transmission (Ju…
- Inventing New Ways of Doing Brain Surgery (Jan 13, 2020 | Duke Research Blog)
- As a Buddhist Priest, Neurosurgeon Finds Deep Connection with Patients (Jul 17,…
- Brain Surgery May Get A Bit Easier, With Augmented Reality (Oct 5, 2016)
- New Clinic Offers Multidisciplinary Approach to Pituitary Tumors (Mar 15, 2016 …
Representative Publications
- Williams, Michelle M., Aden P. Haskell-Mendoza, Ethan A. Massat, Bryan T. Mott, Eleanor C. Smith, Tanner J. Zachem, Franziska Loebel, et al. “Contemporary Management of Radiation Necrosis: Insights and Avenues.” Clin Cancer Res 32, no. 9 (May 1, 2026): 1606–14. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-2381.
- Abdelgadir, Jihad, Tanner J. Zachem, Syed M. Adil, Alexandra E. Hunter, Emanuel J. Ray, Adedotun Bello, Seeley Yoo, et al. “The role of the blink reflex in predicting facial nerve outcomes following vestibular schwannoma surgery: a 4-year retrospective review.” J Neurosurg, April 3, 2026, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3171/2025.11.JNS251748.
- Hunter, Alexandra E., Tanner J. Zachem, Anthony Ghanem, Adam Kaakati, Mohamed-Yahia Monawar, Sarah Cantrell, Jihad Abdelgadir, et al. “Cranial Nerve Injury in Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to Skull Base Surgery: A Systematic Review.” Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 16, no. 4 (April 2026): 391–405. https://doi.org/10.1002/alr.70134.
- Yamamoto, K. K., B. Moradkhani, T. J. Zachem, P. J. Codd, and Y. Chitalia. “Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer Robot (TAGR) Towards Minimally Invasive Hybrid Surgical Laser Steering.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 11, no. 4 (January 1, 2026): 4505–12. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2026.3666687.
- Cheng, J., X. Zhao, S. Liu, X. Yu, R. Prakash, P. J. Codd, J. E. Katz, and S. Lin. “SurgXBench: Explainable Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Surgery.” In Proceedings 2026 IEEE Cvf Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Wacv 2026, 8188–98, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV61042.2026.00790.