Peter Konrad, MD, PhD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., plans to test whether intraspinalmicrostimulation technology has the ability to restore body movements.
The International Association of HealthCare Professionals welcomes neurological surgeon Anthony J.G. Alastra, MD, to its organization.
Isaac Karikari, MD, of Duke Medicine in Raleigh, N.C., performed scoliosis surgery with new software, IGA.
William S. Bodemer, MD, will join Premier Bone & Joint Centers, based in Laramie, Wyo.
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital added Adesh Tandon, MD, to its surgical oncology practice and cancer program.
Alan T. Villavicencio, MD, of Boulder (Colo.) Neurosurgical and Spine Associates, performed the first ACDF procedure utilizing Xtant Medical’s Atrix-C Cervical Allograft Interbody Spacer.
Warren Yu, MD, implanted Irvine, Calif.-based Interventional Spine’s 3rd Generation Opticage Expandable Interbody Fusion device in the first patient in the United States. Dr. Yu is the director of spine surgery at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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