Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center said goodbye to neurosurgeon Noel Tulipan, MD, who died at 64 on Nov. 2 from an illness.
Ashraf Hanna, MD, of the Florida Spine Institute in Clearwater, will be on CBS 10News monthly to present his treatments and raise awareness of chronic pain conditions.
Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Wash., opened its new neuroscience institute. Neurosurgeon Abhineet Chowdhary, MD, serves as the institute’s medical director.
Gordon Baltuch, MD, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pennsylvania, completed his 1,000th deep brain stimulation procedure.
SmartCEO Magazine named Alexander Vaccaro, MD, PhD, MBA, CEO of the Year in Philadelphia.
Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York offered a laboratory course taught by Jeffrey Bruce, MD, and Marc Otten, MD, on operative approaches.
The Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery awarded Neel Anand, MD, clinical professor of surgery and director of spine trauma at Cedars-Sinai Spine in Los Angeles, a the “Global Forum Best Paper Award.”
Atlanta-based OrthoAtlanta welcomed Kevin U. Park, MD, to its team of spine surgeons.
Laura A. Snyder, MD, of Phoenix-based Barrow Brain and Spine, spoke with abc 15 about points for patients to consider before undergoing spine surgery.
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