BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Gary W. Duncan, M.D., earned his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1963 and his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1966. He continued at Vanderbilt as an intern, and then assistant resident, in Internal Medicine. He left Nashville in 1968 to serve in the United States Air Force. In 1970, he became an assistant resident in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical fellow of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He completed his postgraduate training as a Neurology Resident and Stroke Fellow.

Duncan joined the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1973 as an instructor of Neurology, while also serving as a physician and research affiliate for the Clinical Research Center for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1975, he returned to Vanderbilt as assistant professor of Neurology and staff neurologist for the Veterans Administration Medical Center. He was named associate professor, vice-chair of Neurology, and chief of the Adult Neurology Service in 1978. Duncan then became clinical associate professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt, co-director of Frist-Massey Neurological Research Institute, and medical director of the Neurodiagnostic Laboratory at Columbia/HCA Centennial Medical Center in 1981.

Duncan went on to serve as medical director of the Rehabilitation Center at Columbia/HCA Centennial Medical, and become chief of Neurology at Metropolitan Nashville General Hospital, as well as professor of Neurology and Chief of the Division of Neurology at Meharry Medical College in 1994. A year later he took on the roles of medical director of the Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Center at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, as well as vice chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Meharry. He continued to serve as a clinical professor at Vanderbilt, in both Neurology and Speech and Hearing Services. Duncan was named chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Behavioral Sciences at Meharry in 1999, and left that position to chair the Department of Neurology in 2003.

Duncan became professor of Clinical Neurology at Vanderbilt in 2005. His clinical interests are in general neurology, but he continues his special interest in memory disorders, dementia, Alzheimer's disease and rehabilitation of head injury and stroke patients.

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