Author: Carly Behm

Mark McFarland, DO, performed the first surgery with the Globus Sable expandable lumbar interbody cage in the Virginia peninsula.

Des Plaines-based Illinois Bone & Joint Institute partnered with PatientIQ, a platform that helps measure patient outcomes.

Kamali Thompson, MD, is an Olympic fencer who always wanted to be a doctor, according to a Dec. 22 interview with Teen Vogue. Having multiple fencing accomplishments on her resume, her next challenge is an orthopedic residency.

Value-based care, outpatient care migration and consolidation are healthcare topics executives are keeping a close eye on going into 2022.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed seven people, including an orthopedic surgeon and practice leader, to the state's Board of Athletic Training on Dec. 20.

Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina Health will onboard a medical illustrator in January.

Regenerative medicine in orthopedic surgery has remained an area of interest among Becker's readers in 2021.

The Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers launched a neurosurgery program to help reduce the need to transfer children and infants to larger health centers, the Fort Myers News-Press reported Dec. 21.

PrecisionOS added surgeons to its clinical advisory board.

Brian Domby, MD, of Florida Medical Clinic in Brandon, started using the MACI regenerative procedure for cartilage repair, the practice said Dec. 21.