Duane E. Haines
Duane E. Haines, PhD, FAAAS, FAAA passed away quietly at his home in Winston-Salem North Carolina on July 1, 2024. Duane was ever the devoted husband, father, grandfather, scienJst and educator inspiring all with whom he interacted with his passion and dedication to acquiring and sharing knowledge. His research career took a comparative approach to studying the structure and function of the nervous system with emphasis on cerebellar circuitry resulting in dozens of peer-reviewed publications; he served as research advisor to eight graduate students. He was an elected fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), elected fellow of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), elected the Alpha Helix (Official Historian) of the Cajal Club (1986-2009), and elected to the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology (1994-2009). Duane served leadership roles as the Secretary/Treasurer for AAA (1996-2004) and Treasurer for the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists from 1999-2009. He was a founding member of the International Society for the History of the Neuroscience where he was elected as Secretary from 1995-2000 and served as president 2001-2002. He was also a member of the Society for Neuroscience. His never-ending dedication to his colleagues and students was most evident in his role as Professor and Chair (1985-2010) of the Department of Anatomy (now the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Studies) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) School of Medicine. Duane retired in 2010 as Emeritus Professor at UMMC where he continued to teach and be recognized for his contributions to the field. When he and his wife Gretchen moved to Winston-Salem, NC in 2013 he joined the Departments of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine as volunteer faculty where he continued to teach neuroanatomy to medical students, graduate students and residents.
Dr. Haines was born in Springfield, Ohio. He earned a BA in Biology with a minor in History-Political Science in 1965 at Greenville College in Greenville Illinois. At Michigan State University he earned his MS (1967) and PhD (Anatomy, 1969). He held faculty positions at Michigan State University, Medical College of Virginia, West Virginia University, University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Duane’s contributions to neuroscience and neuroscience education throughout the world are innumerable for the medical students, graduate students, residents and health professionals he has influenced both in the classroom and through his Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections and Systems and the textbook Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications. In 1983, Dr. Haines published the first edition of Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections and Systems. Over the years, he worked with colleagues, as he continued to update and incorporate ever changing technological advances to better understand and identify neuroanatomical structures and how they are altered following injury and disease. The atlas is used world-wide and has been translated into eight languages with the 11th edition being released this year. The sixth edition of his textbook Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications will be released in 2025. Duane was ever committed to ensuring that his teaching was clinically relevant and has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to academic medicine and the global community through countless awards including the AJ Ladman AAA/Wiley Exemplary Service Award from the American Association of Anatomists, the Henry Gray/Elsevier award from the American Association of Anatomists, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award from AOA and the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Family, friends, colleagues and students will remember the man who loved science and was passionate about teaching almost as equally as he was passionate about sports cars, particularly his Porsche and the Porsche Club of America, his bicycling and service to the US Cycling Federation, motorcycles, gardening, woodworking and making apple butter in a copper kettle over an open flame.
