Spine

Looking at total compensation as more than just a paycheck, building up the infrastructure around you and finding the right practice setting are three pieces of advice that physicians wish they had received earlier in their careers.  These three surgeons…

Suraj Sulhan, MD, a spinal neurosurgeon, is joining Dallas Neurosurgical & Spine, he said in a June 15 LinkedIn post. Dr. Sulhan has expertise in endoscopic and minimally invasive spine surgery. He recently completed his residency at Houston Methodist, and…

When Leonel Hunt, MD, began traveling to Africa through the Hunt Foundation, he expected to teach. He did not expect to rethink how he practiced medicine. Dr. Hunt had built a career at the forefront of spine surgery. An attending…

Orthopedic surgeons have never been in higher demand. Hospitals are recruiting aggressively. Patients are waiting longer for care. Workforce shortages continue to grow. In most industries, those conditions would create more leverage for the people providing the service. However, Alex…

Spine surgeon Andrew Dossett, MD, operated on Oklahoma City Thunder guard Nikola Topić, the team said June 13. Dr. Dossett performed a minimally invasive lumbar microdiscectomy on Mr. Topić at Carrell Clinic in Dallas. Mr. Topić will be recovered in…

Cleveland Clinic plans to open a hybrid neurosurgical operating room as part of its 1 million-square-foot Neurological Institute building in Cleveland, which is scheduled to open in early 2027. The hybrid OR will combine the capabilities of a traditional operating…

Expanding and modernizing training programs, as well as engaging potential surgeons earlier in their education are crucial to improving the spine and orthopedic surgeon pipeline. The number of orthopedic surgeons has steadily declined over the past few years. In 2021,…

A new study published by Eden Prairie, Minn.-based SynerFuse has shown that combining dorsal root ganglion stimulation with transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in a single procedure is safe and feasible.  Patients in the study reported about a 70% reduction in…

The future of outpatient spine surgery is becoming more accommodating to complex spine surgery, and for one surgeon a mini-open cortical trajectory technique has helped make previously challenging cases more feasible in the ASC. Michael Burdi, MD, has leveraged this…

For decades, spine surgery has relied on some of medicine’s highest-quality research. Randomized trials. Prospective studies. Single-center investigations led by academic institutions. Those studies transformed spine care, but they also came with a limitation: They often reflected ideal conditions rather…