Spine

Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine has appointed Michael Lim, MD, chair of its department of neurosurgery, effective Sept. 1

MyMOC, a startup tackling physician burnout with its MOCingbird app, opened an office in North Kingstown, R.I., in August, The NK Standard-Times reports.

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.