Here are 11 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news over the past week.
T. Scott Ellison, MD, was elected to the Tidelands Health board of trustees. He is a member of the Tidelands Waccamaw Orthopaedics and Spine.
Rockford (Ill.) Spine Center surgeons Michael Roh, MD, Christopher Sliva, MD, and Fred Sweet, MD, were elected to the Vital Top Ten Doctors awards for the city and the state.
Jonathan Slotkin, MD, and Micahel Haak, MD, co-directors of the ProvenCare Lumbar Spine Program, were in the news discussing Geisinger Medical Center becoming one of three hospital providers for spine surgery in the Employers Centers of Excellence Network from The Pacific Business Group on Health.
Chief of spine surgery at Mount Sinai Health System and chief of spine surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital Andrew Hecht, MD, was discussed Mount Sinai's new spine hospital focused on spine care.
Dom Coric, MD, chief of neurosurgery at Carolinas Medical Center, performed the 100th successful implantation of the FLXfit expandable, articulated interbody fusion device from Expanding Orthopedics.
Adrian Thomas, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon with New Hampshire NeuroSpine Institute, was named to Leadership New Hampshire, a 10-month program focusing on leadership.
Daveed Frazier, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Atlantic Spine Center gave back-friendly travel tips to Health News Digest.
InVivo Therapeutics named professor of neurological surgery at the Miller School of Medicine and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in Miami James Guest, MD, to the Scientific Advisory Board.