Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons in the news over this past week.
St. Petersburg General Hospital appointed Ahmad Nematbakhsh, DO, to its board of trustees.
Beverly Hills Spine Surgery surgeon Khawar Siddique, MD, purchased a 38,000-square-foot building in Los Angeles to expand his practice for $24 million.
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard named Walter O. Carlson, MD, to the State Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
Douglas Won, MD, of SpineCARE in Irving, Texas, implemented the Lumini micro-invasive surgery procedure allowing patients to return home within hours of undergoing surgery.
Calumet Medical Center in Chilton, Wis., welcomed neurosurgeon Kimball Fuiks, MD, to its physician team.
William J. Sonstein, MD, a senior partner at Neurological Surgery in Rockville Centre, N.Y., was tapped to lead the practice’s newly-launched NSPC Ultrasonic Spine Institute.
Donald Kucharzyk, DO, showed Precision Spine’s MD-Max ULIF System can achieve better outcomes than traditional open surgery with a less invasive approach.
Chicago spine surgeon Daniel Ivanovich, MD, was featured in USA Today, which detailed his journey from college basketball player to orthopedic spine surgeon, non-profit organization One Patient Global Health Initiative and the time he spends singing and playing the blues with the Chicago Blues All-Stars.
Elian Shepherd, MD, a spine surgeon with the Methodist Hospital Southlake Campus, was featured in the Chicago Tribune talking about the hospital’s new Orthopedic-Spine Center.
Joliet, Ill.-based Presence Neuroscience Institute’s Markus Chwajol, MD, was featured in The Herald-News educating young athletes about concussions.