Author: Alan Condon

Chesterton, Ind.-based Lakeshore Bone & Joint Institute will break ground on a new facility in Crown Point, Ind., on Oct. 23, The Times of Northwest Indiana reports.

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, Ore., installed Globus Medical's ExcelsiusGPS robotic navigation system to assist surgeons in spine operations, The Register-Guard reports.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to hire a section chief of neurosurgery in Little Rock, Ark., according to Lemon Wire.

Here are seven spine and neurosurgeons making the news this week.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger is planning a new orthopedic and sports medicine facility in Scranton, Pa., on Oct. 17, reports WMEP.

The Wyss Medical Foundation gave Children's Hospital of Philadelphia $5 million to support thoracic insufficiency syndrome patient care, innovative research and education.

Synaptive Medical signed a co-marketing collaboration with Stryker's advanced guidance technologies business to expand access to its Modus V device.

Medical imaging and cybersecurity company Sectra is using 3D templates from DePuy Synthes to expand its preoperative orthopedic planning system for trauma cases, reports ITN Online.

The neurosurgery residency program at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque will be scrapped next year, Albuquerque Journal reports.

Matthew Goodwin, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery and neurological surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis.