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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.

Kristopher Kimmell, MD, is a neurosurgeon in Rochester, N.Y., with a practice focused on minimally invasive spine surgery, traumatic brain injury, brain tumors and other spinal procedures.

Thomas Loftus, MD, founder of the Austin (Texas) Neurosurgical Institute, has spent his career focused on complex minimally invasive spine surgery.

Fabien Bitan, MD, a spine surgery chief at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, successfully performed an M6 artificial cervical disc replacement surgery on a 29-year-old woman.

Ashutosh Pradhan, MD, is the chief of neurosurgery at Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside, a 528-bed hospital based in Jacksonville, Fla.