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Duane Duke, MD

Surgery

Primary Office

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children's Hospital, Delaware ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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

  • MD - Jefferson Medical College, 2003

Board Certifications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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).

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

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