Hunt Batjer, MD, was named president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Hospital for Special Surgery named Frank Schwab, MD, the new spine service chief. He’ll succeed Frank Commisa, MD, on Aug. 1.
Christopher Shaffrey, MD, was named secretary of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Spine surgeon Ted Wagner, MD, traveled to Nepal to provide medical aid to those devastated by the recent earthquake.
Rebecca Barrett-Tuck, MD, performed the first spine surgery using Aurora Spine’s ZIP 51 Minimally Invasive Interspinous Implant in the United States at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark. Dr. Christian Reparon performed the first procedure in Germany at Protestant Hospital.
Stanley Jones, MD, was featured in a report about his company, Celltex, which provided a stem cell therapy used in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Lenox Hill Hospital spine surgeon David Matusz, MD, was quoted in the New York Daily News discussing Freddie Gray’s spinal injury. Mr. Gray was injured while in police custody in Baltimore and later died as a result of the injury.
Orthopedic spine surgeon and medical director of the Desert Spine and Scoliosis Center in Phoenix Rafath Baig, MD, was featured discussing Nexxt Spine’s new Struxxure anterior cervical plate system.
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