Carly Behm, Author at Becker’s Spine Review

Stryker's Mako robot costs about $1 million, but the payoffs for two centers that acquired it are priceless.

Bradley Heiges, MD, a spine surgeon at Savannah, Ga.-based Optim Orthopedics, became interested in medicine when he was a patient in college.

Here are three spine surgeons who moved to new practices or added to their titles in May:

Michigan Medicine's new orthopedic surgery chair and nine more surgeons to know:

Regis Haid Jr., MD, is a spine surgeon at Atlanta Brain and Spine Care and the new president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Asheville, N.C.-based EmergeOrtho: Blue Ridge Division named Tommy Middleton as CEO.

Southern Spine, a spine surgery implant and instrument manufacturer in Macon, Ga., named John Hart as president and CEO.

Sanford Medical Center Fargo (N.D.) earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for orthopedic care.

Five key updates from spine and orthopedic device companies in the last week:

Spinal Stabilization Technologies reached two milestones for its PerQdisc spine device.