Jason Tani, MD, joined North Hawaii Health & Wellness Orthopedic Clinic at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea, Big Island Now reports.
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Kirk Clifford, MD, and James Gebhard, MD, will join Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., where they will start an orthopedic spine surgery program, according to The Business Times.
Sports medicine physicians can tackle the opioid crisis with non-opioid pain management, according to Bert Mandelbaum, MD, orthopedic surgeon and co-chair of medical affairs at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles in Medscape Orthopedics.
Interventional pain physician John Prunskis, MD, was appointed to the HHS pain management taskforce.
Salt Lake City-based orthopedic surgeon Kade Huntsman, MD, leads the Salt Lake Orthopaedic Clinic at St. Marks Hospital. He performs robot-assisted spine surgery and uses cutting-edge technologies in his procedures.
David Hanscom, MD, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.
Simon Lee, MD, repaired the ruptured left Achilles tendon of Chicago White Sox prospect Jake Burger, MLB.com reports.
A federal investigation found infection issues were rapid after orthopedic surgery at Sparrow Carson in Carson City, Mich., according to the Lansing State Journal.
Michael Vitale, MD, Ronald Leeman Jr., MD, and Lawrence Lenke, MD, of New York City-based New York-Presbyterian Columbia Orthopedics, developed best practice guidelines for wrong level spinal deformity surgery.
Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, completed his 300th case using the Mazor X Robotic Guidance System.