Spine

Gunnar Andersson, MD, PhD, received the Henry Farfan Basic Science Award, according to a news release from Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.

Rothman Institute in Philadelphia recently welcomed physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Natacha S. Falcon, DO, according to a practice news release.

John H. Peloza, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon, founder and medical director of the Center for Spine Care and founding physician partner of the Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Dallas, which was recently founded through a partnership between…

Bloomington, Minn.-based health insurer HealthPartners is changing the way it covers patients considering spine surgery, in an effort to decrease costs and increase efficacy, according to a Star Tribune report.

Founder and CEO of Business Dynamics Barbara Cataletto has been named to the coding task force for the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, according to a Long Island Business News report.

Here are 20 spine and neurosurgeons on the move in 2011.

RSB Spine, a Cleveland-based spine device company, recently reported 46 percent sales increase for 2011 over 2010, according to an RSB Spine news release.

Spine recently named spine surgeons Scott Boden, MD, and Daryl Fourney, MD, reviewers of the year for completing the best reviews for the journal in 2011.

Clint Borm, director of physician relations at Laser Spine Institute, based in Tampa, Fla., was recently named a finalist for the Business Buddies Tampa Best in Business Awards, according to a Laser Spine Institute news release.

Researchers recently combined the Utah Population Database health and geneologic data for 2 million Utah residents to identify 486 patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy, according to a study published in Spine.