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Adam Bruggeman, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Texas Spine Care Center in San Antonio. 

Khoi Than, MD, is a neurosurgeon who recently left his practice at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland to join Chris Shaffrey, MD, and his team at Duke Spine Center in Durham, N.C.

Amer Samdani, MD, is the chief of surgery for Shriners Hospital for Children – Philadelphia.

In Wichita Falls, Texas in 1971, two general medical officers — Stephen Hochschuler, MD, and Ralph Rashbaum, MD — met each other for the first time while stationed in the U.S. Air Force. 

Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, is vice chairman, professor and director of the minimally invasive spine surgery and spine program in the department of neurological surgery at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.

Raymond Hah, MD, is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine of USC. He focuses his practice on minimally invasive spine surgical techniques.

Roger Hartl, MD, is a professor of neurological surgery and director of spine surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is also director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care.

Peter Derman, MD, is a surgeon at Plano-based Texas Back Institute.

Technology in the spine field is evolving, and surgeons are reshaping their practices to keep up.

Daniel Penello, MD, successfully implanted a custom 3D-printed finger bone in an iron worker, Robert Smith, who was facing amputation after a heavy steel beam crushed his finger.