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Christopher Loftus, MD, chair of the department of neurosurgery of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Ill., has been elected treasurer of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
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Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pa., has acquired SUN Orthopaedic Group in Lewisburg, according to a News-Item report.