Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news over this past week.
Larry Lenke, MD, Daniel Riew, MD, and Ronald Lehman, MD, are leaving Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to join New York-Presbyterian Hospital to establish a comprehensive spine hospital.
Spine surgeon Reginald J. Davis, MD, joined Laser Spine Institute and will perform surgery at all seven surgery center locations across the United States.
Commonwealth Orthopaedic Centers welcomed John B. Jacquemin, MD, to the physician team after he completed a fellowship in spinal surgery at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston.
Patrick Hsieh, MD, director of neurosurgery spine at the Keck Hospital of the University of South Carolina was named the principal investigator at the site for the Neuro-Spinal Scaffold Clinical Trial from InVivo Therapeutics.
The Spine Institute on Emerald Coast's Kornelis Poelstra, MD, was featured in the My Panhandle report about the hospital's robotic spine surgery system.
South Texas Spinal Clinic's spine surgeon Ajeya Joshi, MD, along with physicians David Hirsch, DO, and John Hall, DO, are planning to establish a new division of the practice dedicated to stem cell therapy.
Lee Segal, MD, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health was featured in the Courier Post discussing new scoliosis treatment that promotes faster recovery.
Brett G. Menmuir, MD, performed the first surgery with the SImmetry Sacroiliac Joint Fusion System's update at the Reno Orthopedic Clinic.
Orthopedic surgeon Ryon Hennessy, MD, was featured in the Chicago Tribune for implementing the Kiva VCF Treatment System at Elmhurst Hospital.
Sabine Vaccine Institute gave Gary Michelson, MD, the Albert B. Sabin Humanitarian Award.