What professional lessons can hospital leaders learn from the 2012 presidential debates? Quite a few, according to Kristen Hayner, senior executive advisor with healthcare communications firm Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock.
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Dennis Crandall, MD, founder and medical director of Sonoran Spine Center in Mesa, Ariz., originally began practicing as a member of a large group and then struck out on his own to begin a spine specialty practice.
Lewis Yocum, MD, will perform elbow surgery on University of Utah freshman pitcher Hunter Rodriguez, according to an Ahwatukee Foothills News report.
James Andrews, MD, of the Andrews-Paulos Research and Education Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla., will perform knee surgery on Buffalo Bills wide receiver David Nelson, according to a Buffalo News report.
James Andrews, MD, performed arthroscopic knee surgery on Detroit Lions defensive tackle Corey Williams, according to a Detroit Free Press report.
Smith & Nephew has launched its TRIGEN Low-Profile Screw.
Mazor Robotics has finalized the financing agreement that it entered into in August, securing the first tranche of $7.5 million from a group of institutional and accredited investors led by Oracle Investment Management.
Implantate AG, a global medical device company focused on trauma products and biomaterials for the orthopedic market, has extended the existing contracts of their three executive board members for another three years until the end of the financial year 2015.
Integra LifeSciences has received FDA approval for expanded indication for use of the Integra Vu aPOD Prime Intervertebral Body Fusion Device in anterior lumbar interbody fusion procedures.
Brian Hainline, MD, chief of neurology and integrative pain medicine at ProHEALTH Care Associates in Lake Success, N.Y., has been named the first chief medical officer for the NCAA, according to a Washington Post report.