Drs. Robert Watkins, Ronald Lehman Jr. & more: 6 spine, neurosurgeons in the news

Spine

Here are six spine and neurosurgeons making headlines.

Robert Watkins, MD, examined Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, the Los Angeles Times reported.

 

Ronald Lehman Jr., MD, of the New York Presbyterian-Allen Hospital in New York City was the first to use the Mazor X system in the region.

 

Plano-based Texas Back Institute welcomed neurosurgeon Blake Staub, MD.

 

Grant Skidmore, MD, of Chesapeake Regional Medical Center in Norfolk, Va., reported positive outcomes for Expanding Orthopedics' FLXfit 3D Expandable TLIF Cage.

 

Newton-Wellesley (Mass.) Hospital named Louis Jenis, MD, its new chief medical and innovation officer, the Worcester Business Journal reported.

 

Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute named Cheerag D. Upadhyaya, MD, a surgical co-director.

 

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