Author: Alan Condon

Darrel Brodke, MD, has been appointed chair of the orthopedic department at the University of Utah's Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine and CEO of orthopedic musculoskeletal services for U of U Health, both in Salt Lake City.

U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals for Neurology & Neurosurgery 2020-21 was published June 15, ranking 50 centers for pediatric neurosurgery and serious neurological conditions.

A 500-pound man with debilitating back pain was turned away from four spine surgeons in Ohio before Minnesota neurosurgeon Hamid Abbasi, MD, PhD, agreed to take on the case with a unique approach.

State officials permanently banned Evangelos Megariotis, MD, former owner and operator of Clifton (N.J.) Orthopedic Associates, from practicing or prescribing drugs in New Jersey, according to the Garfield-Lodi Daily Voice reported.

Woodbury, Minn.-based Summit Orthopedics' Eagan Surgery Center was reportedly the first ASC in the state to perform spine surgery with the Mazor X Stealth Edition robotic system.

OrthoSouth, a 38-physician practice with locations in Mississippi and Tennessee, has opened its eight clinics in Hernando, Miss., the DeSoto County News reported June 6.

From increasing revenue growth to shifting spine strategy and FDA approvals, here are seven key Medtronic developments this year:

Neurosurgeon Dave Atteberry, MD, is competing against two other physicians for a position as chief medical officer on the Yakima (Wash.) Health District Board of Health, according to YakimaHerald.com.

Ernest Braxton, MD, has laid out three key advantages of awake spinal fusion, a procedure that he first performed in 2016, Summit Daily reported June 14.

The implementation of sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms has the potential to transform how spine surgeons approach preoperative clinic visits and guide decisions based on predictive models.