Duane Duke, MD

Surgery

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 Appointment: (800) 416-4441

Get to Know Me

Duane Duke, MD, FACS, FAAP, Colonel US Army Reserves is a pediatric general surgeon and medical director of the Trauma Center at Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware. In addition to trauma care and disaster preparedness, Dr. Duke’s interests include chest wall surgery and non-invasive approaches to treatment of pectus carinatum and pectus excavatum.  

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Surgery - St. Christophers Hospital for Children, 2011
  • Research - St. Christophers Hospital for Children, 2007

Internship

  • General Surgery - Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2004

Residency

  • General Surgery - National Capital Consortium Program, 2009
  • General Surgery - National Capital Consortium Program, 2006

Medical/Dental School

  • M.D. - Thomas Jefferson University - Medical College, 2003

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Surgery/General Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
  • Carefirst MD Community Health Plan Mcaid
  • Cigna Lifesource Transplant
  • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
  • Cigna/Great West PPO
  • Delaware First Health
  • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
  • Devon Health Services
  • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
  • First Health/Affordable PPO
  • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
  • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
  • Insurance Administrators of America
  • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
  • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
  • Lifetrac Transplant
  • Maryland Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • National Transplant (Humana)
  • New Jersey Medicaid
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO DE/PA
  • Pennsylvania Medicaid
  • Preferred Healthcare PPO
  • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
  • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
  • UPMC MCAID/CHIP PA DE
  • US Family Health Plan
  • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

  • Abdominal Masses
  • Anti-Reflux Surgery
  • Burn Care
  • Chest Wall Disorders
  • Gall Bladder Disease
  • Hernias and Hydroceles
  • Wound Care

  • Omphalocele and gastroschisis; Pediatric Surgery: Diagnosis and Management; (2023).

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  • Recent Modifications of the Nuss Procedure: The Pursuit of Safety During the Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum; Annals of Surgery; (2022).

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  • Selective use of sternal elevation before substernal dissection in more than 2000 Nuss repairs at a single institution; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2021).

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  • Firearm injuries and children: Position statement of the American pediatric surgical association; Pediatrics; (2019).

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  • Multiple intestinal atresias associated with angiodysplasia in a newborn; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2011).

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  • The galactocele of male infants: An intriguing entity. Study and reflection about a case, with review of the literature; Pediatric and Developmental Pathology; (2011).

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  • Omphalocele and gastroschisis; Pediatric Surgery: Diagnosis and Management; (2009).

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  • A rare cause of vaginal bleeding in a 7-month-old female infant; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2008).

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  • Modulation of the inflammatory response and apoptosis using epidermal growth factor and hepatocyte growth factor in a liver injury model: a potential approach to the management and treatment of cholestatic liver disease; Journal of Pediatric Surgery; (2008).

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