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124 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS neurosurgeon at the Brain and Spine Surgeons of Orange County in Newport Beach, California. Among his notable achievements, Dr. Duma is most renowned for developing a means of treating a glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor, which garnered him a United States patent. Its success is documented in the Journal of Neurosurgery and boasts the highest success rate of treating the tumor. He considers it to be his greatest neurosurgical achievement. An active presence in the field, he maintains affiliation with the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society. As a testament to his success, Dr. Duma was featured in the 71st edition of Who’s Who in America in 2018. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing, traveling, boating and playing music. In fact, he also plays in a rock band that regularly performs at local venues. D esiring to be a doctor since he was 9 years old, Dr. Christopher Duma chose to study surgery in medical school because of the instant gratification of using his hands. In addition, he always held an interest in how the brain worked from when he was a young child. He subsequently earned a BA in neuroscience, with honors, from Colgate University and an MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Completing an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurosurgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, he became a fellow of stereotactic neurosurgery and gamma knife at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, concluding his extensive education in 1992. Commencing his career just after earning his bachelor’s degree in 1981, Dr. Duma served as a research assistant in the department of neuropharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine for one year. While working toward his doctorate degree, he was a pain service research assistant in the department of neurology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, soon becoming a registrar of neurosurgery at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, England. For the following two years, he served as chief resident in neurosurgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital until attaining his current position as a CHRISTOPHER DUMA, MD, FACS NEUROSURGEON Brain and Spine Surgeons of Orange County Newport Beach, CA