Here are five spine surgeons making headlines during the week of Dec. 16, 2016.
Hyun Bae, MD, earned recognition as a 2016 Top Doctor in Santa Monica, Calif.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons appointed Kern Singh, MD, spine program committee chair for the society's annual meetings.
Richard A. Kube, MD, of Peoria, Ill.-based Prairie Spine & Pain Institute, published a clinical study's 12-month results focused on sacroiliac joint fusion.
James Fish, DO, affiliated with The Hughston Clinic in Nashville, Tenn., performed Rutherford County's first two-level cervical disc replacement.
Nasser Ani, MD, used Malden, Mass.-based SpineFrontier's biocompatible Les Arena-C(HA) cervical cage and the two-level Les Invue Max cervical plate to perform a minimally invasive spinal fusion.