Spine

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…

Southfield-based Michigan Head & Spine Institute added Ratnesh Mehra, DO, to its neurosurgical team.

Raj Narayan, MD, is a professor and chairman of neurosurgery at East Garden City, N.Y.-based Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and director of the Manhasset, N.Y.-based Northwell Health Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery. 

A report from Doximity, an online network of medical professionals, ranks neurosurgery as the top-paying physician specialty, with physicians earning an average of $617,000 annually.

Ghassan Beijani, MD, was named chief of the newly formed Penn Highlands neurosurgery department at the Dubois, Pa.-based PH Brain and Spine Center, reports The Courier Express.

A lawsuit filed against Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and one of its neurosurgeons alleging fraud and patient harm was unsealed last week after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Dakota filed a motion to intervene, according…

Lumberton, N.C.-based Southeastern Neurological Center added Michael Wolak, MD, PhD, to its staff, reports The Robsonian.

The national opioid epidemic is one of the most pressing issues facing healthcare in the United States. Four spine and neurosurgeons provide their insight on how to tackle the opioid epidemic.

Here are eight spine and neurosurgeons making the news.

Ernest Braxton, MD, successfully performed a two-hour minimally invasive spinal fusion procedure where the patient was awake at Vail-Summit (Colo.) Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, reports Summit Daily.