Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons who were in the news this week.
Ziya Gokaslan, MD, will leave his post as director of the Neurosurgical Spine Center and vice chairman of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore to become the Alpert Medical School chairman of the neurosurgery department and chief of neurosurgery at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital as well as clinical director of the Norman Price Neurosciences Institute on July 1.
Barth Green, MD, was in the news for his association with the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis when one of this famed patients, and program advocate, architect Michael Graves passed away.
The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation awarded the 2015 Clinical Research Award to Stuart L. Weinstein, MD, for his work with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treatment.
Loyola Medical Center's Beejal Amin, MD, was featured in the news discussing minimally invasive spine surgery procedures.
Craig Humphreys, MD, of Kenai Spine in Soldotna, Alaska, is establishing a nonprofit organization to create spine treatment clinics in medically underserved countries.
Jacob Rosenstein, MD, became the first surgeon in North America to perform an anterior cervical disc fusion with the Arena-C HA interbody with PEEK-OPTIMA HA Enhanced from SpineFrontier.
Neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon, MD, who is a team physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers, made comments to "Total Access" saying CTE isn't as big of a problem in football as many think it is.
Memorial Hospital neurosurgeon Miguel A. Melgar, MD, was featured in the Sun Herald for his role in treating professional football player Delvin Breaux as a high school athlete, and Dr. Melgar's role in bringing Mr. Breaux to the New Orleans Saints.
AANS/CNS Washington Committee Chairman John A. Wilson, MD, was featured discussing the potential sustainable growth rate repeal and replace legislation going through Congress.
Chief of the division of functional neurosurgery at Allegheny General Hospital Michael Oh, MD, was featured in the news discussing Allegheny's incorporation of minimally invasive sacroiliac joint surgery.