David Altchek, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, will perform shoulder surgery on New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda, according to an ESPN report.
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The United States Department of Labor has projected a 20 percent increase in job opportunities from 2008 through 2018, and salaries in sports medicine have been set between $32,000 and $374,300, according to a Sports Medicine Salary report.
Several sports medicine physicians will be presenting at the Sports Medicine Symposium of the Americas in Houston later this year.
RTI Biologics reported $43.7 million in first quarter revenues, an 8 percent increase over the same period in 2011.
LDR Holdings has appointed Robert E. McNamara CFO.
William Jarvis, MD, an orthopedic sports medicine physician with Bone & Joint Clinic in the Wausau, Wis., area, was among nine physicians honored as Physician Citizens of the Year by the Wisconsin Medical Society, according to a Wausau Daily Herald…
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Son Nguyen, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, is working to bring awareness of the Hepatitis B virus to the local Vietnamese community, according to a WDSU report.
Medscape has published the "Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results." The report included data gathered in February from more than 24,000 physicians in the United States across 25 specialties. Of these respondents, 2 percent were in gastroenterology.
Frank Phillips, MD, director of the section of minimally invasive spine surgery at Rush University Medical Center and a founding member of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush, discusses the institute and where the future is headed for minimally…