Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news this week.
The Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America awarded Richard M. Schwend, MD, director of the orthopedic research program at Children's Mercy Kansas City, the 2014 POSNA Humanitarian Award.
Barrow Neurological Institute Director of the Neurosurgery Spine Program and Director of Neurotrauma Nicholas Theodore, MD, was appointed principal investigator for the InVivo Therapeutics Neuro-Spinal Scaffold clinical trial at BNI. BNI is the third clinical site for the trial, which will treat patients with acute spinal cord injury.
Co-Director of the Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute Frank Phillips, MD, announced he will lead the fourth annual IEP Fellows & Young Surgeons' Course to teach about the current topics and trends in spine.
Washington, D.C.'s Alpha Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society inducted George Rappard, MD, founder and director of the Los Angeles Minimally Invasive Spin Institute.
Neurosurgeon Colby Maher, MD, joined Baptist Medical Group.
Luis Manuel Tumialan, MD, performed successful spine surgery on Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen after she severed her spinal cord in an ATV accident.
Father-daughter neurosurgery team Ed Kosnik, MD, and Libby Kosnik Infinger, MD, have been in the news recently for partnering in the operating room at the Medical University of South Carolina. They are the only known father-daughter neurosurgery duo to share the operating room.
Vittorio M. Morreale, MD, a neurosurgeon at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit became the first person to implant RTI Surgical's map3 Cellular Allogeneic Bone graft Strips during an anterior lumbar interbody fusion procedure.
Spine surgeon Kapil Moza, MD, received the 2013 Compassionate Doctor Award from Vitals.
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