Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons in the news this past week.
East Meadow, N.Y.-based NuHealth named Elizabeth Fontana, MD, to lead the neurosurgery division at Nassau University Medical Center.
Director of the neurosurgical spine program and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Ziya L. Gokaslan, MD, was in the news as a contributor to the AOSpine Foundation and Thieme Publishing Group's first volume of the AOSpine Masters Series, which was release this week.
Tausif Rehman, MD, a neurosurgeon at Topeka, Kan.-based Stormont-Vail Healthcare, was killed in a small plane crash near Chicago.
Minimally invasive spine surgeon Chi Lim, MD, joined Orthopaedic Associates in Spartanburg, S.C.
Fond du Lac, Wis.-based Agnesian HealthCare welcomed Jeffrey Meincke, MD, to the physician team.
UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill established the Robert H. Wilkins, M.D., Lectureship in Academic Neurosurgery in honor of former chief of neurosurgery Robert H. Wilkins, MD.
Mayo Clinic Health System welcomed orthopedic spine surgeon Emily Nguyen, MD, to the orthopedic department, according to an Austin Dailey Herald report.
Director of Spinal Surgery Services at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City Fabian Bitan, MD, was in the news this past week commenting on the VAULT-C from Precision Spine, which received FDA clearance.
Rafael Levin, MD, was named chief of spine at HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley.
Photography and video exhibit In Good Company features 40 photographs in 30 locations around Rockford, Ill., including spine surgeon Michael Roh, MD, at Rockford Spine Center, according to a Rock River Times report.