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Amid surgical advances and increased challenges in spine practices, surgeons discuss the future of the landscape. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons around the country about clinical, business and policy issues affecting spine care.…

Xiaofei (Sophie) Zhou, MD, is a spine surgeon at Cleveland-based University Hospitals. She is the associate program director of the neurosurgical residency at UH and performed the hospital’s first endoscopic discectomy in January. Following the milestone she discussed the growing…

Northern Light Health is relocating its outpatient podiatry services from Sangerville, Maine-based Northern Light Health Center to Dover-Foxcroft, Maine-based Northern Light Orthopedics, according to a May 27 report from The Piscataquis Observer. Podiatry patients at Northern Light Orthopedics, which is…

Scott Hannum, MD, is a partner at Durham, N.C.-based EmergeOrtho, and medical director and co-owner of Brunswick Surgery Center in Leland, N.C.  Dr. Hannum is also a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hip and knee replacements.  He is certified…

Warsaw, Ind.-based medtech company Zimmer Biomet has signed a cooperation agreement with Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population, according to a May 26 report from Daily News Egypt. Through the agreement, Egypt-based distributor AZM will offer Zimmer Biomet’s orthopedic and…

St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin (Texas) has become the first system in the East Texas region to use Zimmer Biomet’s Persona IQ total knee implant, according to a May 27 report from The Lufkin Daily News. The procedure was performed May…

Zimmer Biomet named Kevin Thornal as group president for global business and the Americas, according to a May 27 news release. Mr. Thornal will join the company July 1. He was previously CEO and president of Nevro, which was acquired…

The average time to see a physician across specialties has grown 19% since 2022, but for orthopedics that figure has gone down, according to a new survey from AMH Healthcare. The average physician appointment wait time for orthopedic surgery is…