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Morristown, N.J.-based Tyber Medical, a medical device company, announced it has added Ira Fedder, MD, and R. Douglas Orr, MD, as surgeon advisors.

Boardman, Ohio-based Doctors Pain Clinic announced it has added Kenneth T. Sykes, MD, to its medical staff.

Medtronic opened a new Center of Excellence in Singapore to test, design and sell business models for emerging Asian markets, according to a Mass Device report.

Orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician Demetris Delos, MD, has joined the team at Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery Specialists in Greenwich, Conn.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013.

Lorenzo Pacelli, MD, board-certified hand and orthopedic surgeon, is scheduled to perform wrist surgery on the San Diego Padres center fielder Cameron Maybin, according to a U-T San Diego report.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Scott Becker, JD, CPA, will give a presentation titled "5 Key ASC Legal Issues for 2014: Anesthesia, Safe Harbors, Non Competes, HIPAA and More."

J. Patrick Johnson, MD, is a neurosurgeon at the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles and director of the neurosurgery spine fellowship program. He also serves as the director of education and co-director of the spine stem cell research program…

The gap between the adjusted earnings of male and female physicians has widened over the last two decades, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Most physicians agree that shifting to an accountable care organization would positively affect quality of care at their practices, according to the "2013 Physician Sentiment Index," by Epocrates and athenahealth.