Spine

Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, MD, has been appointed chair of the neurosurgery department at Jefferson Neurosurgery, part of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, according to a March 31 LinkedIn post.  Dr. Tjoumakaris previously served as interim chair and holds multiple leadership roles, including director…

Michael Kelly, MD, has joined the spine division in Stanford (Calif.) Medicine’s department of orthopedic surgery, according to a March 31 LinkedIn post.  Dr. Kelly has held leadership roles at San Diego-based Rady Children’s Hospital and St. Louis-based Washington University,…

Three lawsuits were filed March 23 alleging Nevro’s spinal cord stimulators are defectively designed and made patient’s chronic pain worse, AboutLawsuits reported March 30. All three lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,…

In a healthcare landscape squeezed by reimbursement pressures and economic challenges, complex spine and revision surgery are becoming harder to deliver sustainably. Two spine surgeons discuss why these changes are happening. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed…

From findings on opioid use, prior authorization and spine navigation, here are 10 key studies Becker’s reported on in the first quarter of 2026. 1. Carlsmed’s aprevo implant for lumbar spine surgery had reduced complication-related reoperations compared to conventional stock…

Genesys Spine’s SIros-X system for sacroiliac joint fusion launched, and Scott Parker, MD, performed the inaugural case, according to a March 31 news release. SIros-X is designed for acute and chronic instabilities and deformities of the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral…

Scottsdale-based HonorHealth Research Institute became the first facility in Arizona and the second in the U.S. to treat a patient with the PerQdisc lumbar disc implant, according to a March 31 news release shared with Becker’s. PerQdisc is designed to…

In spine surgery, innovation rarely arrives as a single breakthrough. More often, it is iterative, shaped in operating rooms, refined in cadaver labs and tested in the quiet friction points of real procedures. That process is beginning to change. With…

O-arm intraoperative navigation was found to be safe and accurate in a 15-year study of cases involving thoracolumbar and sacral pedicle screw insertion, according to a study in the April 1 issue of Spine. The study looked at patients who…

Erkan Alci, MD, performed the first U.S. case using Globus Medical’s CREO traction screw, according to a March 30 LinkedIn post. Dr. Alci used the screws for a bilateral minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion completed at Conway (S.C.) Medical…