Spine

Alex Vaccaro, MD, PhD, president of Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute was recognized as the world's top-rated spine care expert for the second consecutive year by Expertscape.

Despite pushback from payers and some reimbursement and training obstacles, many spine surgeons expect endoscopic spine surgery to become more prominent in the U.S. over the next decade. 

Here are more than 70 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who have moved to new practices or updated their titles in 2022:

Lee Health’s Lee Physician Group in Fort Myers, Fla. hired four neurosurgeons, the health system said Dec. 14.

A medical office building housing a spine hospital was acquired by Kayne Anderson Real Estate and Remedy Medical Properties.

Joshua Herzog, MD, of OrthoVirginia performed the state's first spine surgery with Surgalign's Holo Portal guidance system, the medtech company said Dec. 13.

Neurosurgeon Brian Fiani, DO, plans to host the world's first spine surgery seminar in the Metaverse.

In February, Becker's published a list of 23 spine device companies to watch in 2022. Here is what they have been up to this year: 

Here are 10 places looking for spine surgeons, using Linkedin's job search tool:

University of Texas at Dallas' Ted Price, PhD, has been awarded $11.3 million on behalf of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to launch a new research center to study origins of pain over the next five years,…