Spine

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has honored neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon, MD, with the 2020 UPMC Loren Roth Clinician of Courage Award, Steelers.com reported Aug. 16.

Fox Valley Orthopedics is welcoming six surgeons to its team Sept. 1.

Here are the top 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review between Aug. 10 and 14:

Six spine and neurosurgeons making the news this week:

This article is a portion of a book titled "Challenges, Risks and Opportunities in Today's Spine World " edited by Stephen Hochschuler, MD, Frank Phillips, MD, and Richard Fessler, MD. You can find links to the previous chapters at the end…

Douglas Crowther, DO, returned to his home state of Colorado to join San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center in Alamosa, Conejos County Citizen reports.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame assemble a medical advisory board, which will be led by Andrew Dossett, MD, a spine surgeon from Dallas.

Neurosurgeon John Cowan, MD, was defeated in the Republican primary runoff for Georgia's 14th congressional district on Aug. 11, Business Insider reports.

Neurosurgeon Zarina Ali, MD, of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has developed a program that helps decrease opioid use and length of stay after elective spine and peripheral nerve surgery.

Beaumont Health, Troy (Mich.) Hospital recently appointed spine surgeon Richard Easton, MD, chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery.