Spine

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.

Ronald Wisneski, MD, joined Cape Orthopedics in Lewes, Del., this fall to serve as a spine specialist, according to the Cape Gazette.

David Hanscom, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon in Seattle, recently published a book about treating chronic pain using the mind/body connection called “Back in Control: A spine surgeon’s roadmap out of chronic pain.” In the book, he discusses some of…

Here are eight best practices for increasing spine practice revenue next year.

The North American Spine Society announced its outstanding paper award winners for 2012, according to AAOS Now.