10 spine, neurosurgeons in the headlines this week

Spine

Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who were recently in the news.

 

Robert Ayer, MD, joined Brain & Spine Institute at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Ga., after completing a fellowship in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.

 

Neurosurgeon Ed Mark, MD, and his wife donated $1 million to The Health Sciences Program at Wiregrass Georgia Tech to grow the program.

 

Wade Ceola, MD, a neurosurgeon, will join High Mountain Brain and Spine Surgery Center at Valley View in Glenwood Springs, Colo., in January 2015.

 

Winchester, Tenn.-based Southern Tennessee Regional Health System welcomed John T. Friedland, MD, to the medical team of Southern Tennessee Orthopedics and Spine Center.

 

Paul Santiago, MD, was in the news as the principal investigator at Barnes-Jewish Hospital for the InVivo Therapeutics' IDE pilot study of the neuro-spinal scaffold in patients with acute spinal cord injury.

 

Orthopedic spine surgeon Praveen Kadimcherla, MD, from Atlantic Spine Center in New Jersey, was featured discussing how video games can help surgeons with dexterity, among other skills, in the operating room.

 

Duane Pitt, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon from Scottsdale, Ariz., will be featured in the event "Imagine a Career in Medicine — OPENING DOORS: Contemporary African American Surgeons," according to UCR Today.

 

Shriners Hospital for Children-Honolulu welcomed Graham Fedorak, MD, to the physician team.

 

Franco Vigna, MD, of Spine Surgery of Buffalo Niagara was chairman of the RTI Surgical surgeon education symposium highlighting the future of spine surgery. John Regan, MD, of Spine Group Beverly Hills was the featured keynote speaker addressing surgical planning and complication avoidance in complex spinal deformity correction.

 

 

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