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Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS

Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Professor and Chair, Neurological Surgery

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Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS

Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Professor and Chair, Neurological Surgery

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Dr. Oyesiku is professor and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery and professor of medicine (endocrinology) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was previously professor of neurological surgery and medicine (endocrinology) at Emory University, Atlanta, GA and the Inaugural Daniel Louis Barrow Chair in Neurosurgery, Vice-Chairman, Dept of Neurological Surgery and Director of the Neurosurgical Residency Program.

Dr. Oyesiku’s clinical expertise is pituitary medicine and surgery. Dr Oyesiku was co-director of the Emory Pituitary Center and has developed one of the largest practices entirely devoted to the care of patients with pituitary tumors in the country and has performed over 3,000 pituitary tumor operations.