Author: Staff

Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute elected M. Kathleen Donald to serve as chief marketing officer.

Leawood, Kan.-based NueHealth entered into a partnership with Philadelphia-based Rothman Institute, Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and 14 individual physicians to acquire the Blue Bell Surgery Center in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.

After being indicted Dec. 4, 2017, for bankruptcy fraud, a district court judge set Cathleen Van Burskirk's, MD, trial for May, the Daily Camera reports.

It took only a few hours for a Dallas County jury to convict neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch, MD, of first-degree felony for endangering an elderly woman in the operating room, the Sarasota Legal Examiner reports.

Victor Romano, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Oak Park, Ill.-based Romano Orthopaedic Center.

From 2009 to 2011, the average cost of an ambulatory care visit for patients with a spine condition was $3,077, according to The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States.

Orthopedic surgeon Oluwaseun Akinbo, MD, joined HaysMed in Hays, Kan., as a full-time physician. Dr. Akinbo has previously served as a locum in the HaysMed Orthopedic Clinic, The Hays Daily News reports.

Hey Clinic for Scoliosis & Spine Surgery opened a new office on the Duke Raleigh (N.C.) Hospital campus.

The Association of American Medical Colleges surveyed U.S. medical school deans on enrollment.

Derek Kelly, MD, received the Special Effort and Excellence Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America at the society's annual meeting between May 9 and May 12 in Austin, Texas.