Spine

UConn Health is planning to consolidate offices at its Brain & Spine Institute in a newly constructed building in Farmington, Conn., according to a Sept. 11 report from the Hartford Business Journal. 

FloSpine has successfully implanted the first Ti-Largo 3D printed cervical cage in partnership with the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, according to a Sept. 12 report from South Florida Hospital News.

Marinus de Kleuver, MD, PhD, accepted the role of president of the Scoliosis Research Society. 

Joseph Schwab, MD, will lead Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's spine-oncology program and the Center for Surgical Technology and AI Research, according to a Sept. 11 news release shared with Becker's.

Lawrence Rinsky, MD, is retiring from a decades-long orthopedic career at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine Children's Health, the hospital said Sept. 10.

An Ohio appeals court on Sept. 8 overturned a verdict against spine surgeon Atiq Durrani, MD, and is granting him a new trial.

Hardeep Singh, MD, is one of few spine surgeons globally who is taking advantage of 3D-printed devices to help patients, according to a Sept. 7 feature from the University of Connecticut.

Becker's reported on two spine and orthopedic setlements in the last month.

Declining CMS pay has been a point of pain for many spine surgeons. Five spine surgeons share their concerns and if the decreasing pay rates would ever affect the patients they treat.

Spine surgeon Mohamed Salar, MD, joined MSU Health Care Sports Medicine, according to a Sept. 6 news release.