Kirk Clifford, MD, and James Gebhard, MD, will join Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., where they will start an orthopedic spine surgery program.
Michael Vitale, MD, Ronald Leeman Jr., MD, and Lawrence Lenke, MD, of New York City-based New York-Presbyterian Columbia Orthopedics, developed best practice guidelines for wrong level spinal deformity surgery.
Marquis Who’s Who honored Stephen D. Burstein, MD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Chris Yeung, MD, performed spine surgery on Pirates outfielder Daniel Nava Feb. 27.
Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, welcomed Nicolas Arredondo, MD, to its staff at Maine Spine Surgery.
Florida neurosurgeon Merle Stringer, MD, was reappointed to the Florida Board of Medicine.
Jeffrey Beecher, DO, joined Wilmington, N.C.-based Atlantic Neurosurgical & Spine Specialists.
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