Spine

Over the past few years of working in academic medicine, one aspect of professional development that confounded me was the notion of fame and it's not too distant cousin, fortune.

Patients are asking UCI Health to reinstate Mark Linskey, MD, a neurosurgeon who won a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against the hospital this year, to the neurological surgery department, according to a report from the Daily Pilot.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has appointed Richard Wohns, MD, to the Washington Medical Commission.

El Paso (Texas) Specialty Hospital will reopen as a spine and pain hospital, according to El Paso Inc.

Phoenix Spine & Joint added former Hudson, Fla.-based Bonati Spine Institute neurosurgeon Bruce Moffatt, MD, to its staff.

Howard Colman, MD, PhD, professor of neurosurgery at University of Utah in Salt Lake City was named one of the 2019 Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chairs, reports KSL.

Paul Houle, MD, of Cape Cod Healthcare Neurosurgery in Hyannis, Mass., successfully performed spine surgery using a transforaminal endoscopic surgical system, reports Wicked Local Lexington.

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Leo Spector, MD, a spine surgeon at the OrthoCarolina Spine Center in Charlotte, N.C., discusses bundled payments programs.