Meagen Fernandez, DO, has completed more than 200 robotic-assisted pediatric spine surgeries at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Musculoskeletal Institute.
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Over the past month, Becker's has reported on four female orthopedic surgeons who have been elected to leadership roles:
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.
Sports medicine physician Payton Fennell, DO, MBA, was named Novant Health’s primary care sports medicine director for the greater Charlotte, N.C., market.
Here are three spine surgeons who moved to new practices or added to their titles in May:
The Orthopaedic Center of Excellence designation from accreditation body DNV GL Healthcare can now be used to obtain a Blue Distinction Specialty Care designation.
A spinal neurosurgeon and professor at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., will feature in the operating room in the season finale of NBC's Chicago Med, which airs June 2, WRAL.com reports.
An increasing demand for orthopedic care has led Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Ore., to hire an orthopedic surgeon for the first time in 10 years, according to the Wallowa County Chieftain.
Paragon 28, an orthopedic device company, bought Additive Orthopaedics' 3D-printed total talus replacement implant and pre-operative surgical planning application June 1.