Spine

Here are 22 spine surgeons who are leaders in professional organizations, spine practices, hospitals and innovators discussing the most fulfilling aspects of their careers.

Minnesota’s Gov. Mark Dayton will undergo spine surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to relieve pain related to spinal stenosis, according to KKTC.

BASIC Spine, based in Orange, Calif., announced it will open a spine and pain outpatient surgery center in Newport Beach in early 2013.

As the New Year draws nearer, it will bring new challenges for spine surgeons and industry innovators. Several experts weigh in on six pressing spine challenges and how professionals can cope with these challenges.

Here are 50 spine surgeons who have joined hospitals, multispecialty groups or other providers in 2012. If you would like to recommend an inclusion for this list, please contact Laura at lmiller@beckershealthcare.com.

The Spine Health Foundation was founded by Executive Director Carol Conduff to provide spine care — including surgical procedures — for underserved populations in the United States. This non-profit organization serves people who are uninsured and underinsured with a variety…

John Adler, MD, a neurosurgeon from Stanford, launched a medical journal to make research more accessible to the public, according to the Stanford School of Medicine blog Scope.

Surgeons and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco recently extracted data on hospital readmissions following spine surgery at UCSF to determine the reason for the readmissions. They found the number of readmissions attributed to the spine surgeons was…

Richard Francis, MD, a spine surgeon at Houston Orthopedic & Spine Hospital, performed the 100th robotic guided spine surgery at the hospital.

Columbia University in New York announced that it received a donation for $200 million from Mortimer B. Zuckerman for the establishment of an institute dedicated to neuroscience research and discovery.