Spine

Doug Yeakal, MD, a sports medicine specialist, is joining the Colorado-based Vail-Summit Orthopaedics Spine Team.

Leaders within the North American Spine Society have partnered with organizations from around the country to launch a pilot program for a national spine registry database. "The main purpose of it is to be able to derive information relative to…

Richard Kaul, MD, president of New Jersey Spine & Rehabilitation in Pompton Lakes, recently returned to the Untied States after making his fourth medical mission trip to the Congo as part of the Spine Project Africa. Dr. Kaul established The…

Chicago's Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush Minimally Invasive Spine Institute announced it will open its doors April 25, with a little help from a big name in basketball.

"There is a saying in spine — you never want to be the first, you never want to be the last [to do something new]," says Brian Massoud, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Spine Centers of America in Fair…

Although many research and journal publications show that minimally invasive techniques for spine procedures are beneficial clinically, the adoption of techniques has been slow.

The Midwest Spine Institute, with several locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, celebrates 25 years of business this year.

Gunnar Andersson, MD, a spine surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, recently received the Orthopaedic Research Society's Alfred R. Shands Jr., MD Award and Lecture, according to an AAOS Now report.

Dr. Jared Brandoff, a spinal surgeon and fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, has joined the medical team at White Plains Hospital in New York in a recent division that aligns hospital services with physicians.

Seven spine surgeons discuss the number of cases they could bring into an ambulatory surgery center.