Spine

Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Sports & Spine Center has been on the forefront of outpatient orthopedic and spine care for nearly two decades, and it shows no sign of slowing down.

Board-certified neurosurgeon Jeffrey S. Oppenheim, MD, at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, N.Y., has been honored with the Sister Joseph Rita Award for Medical Excellence.

A woman paralyzed as a result of spine surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Newark, N.J., received a $5 million settlement, reports New Jersey On-Line.

Here are seven spine and neurosurgeons making headlines.

Mohammed Shamji, a former professor and neurosurgeon at the University of Toronto, was sentenced to life in prison after murdering his wife, Elana Fric-Shamji, MD, reports U of T newspaper The Varsity.

Neurosurgeon Garnette Sutherland, MD, won the Governor General's Innovation Award for his work developing technologies to treat patients and improve clinical care in his field.

Two spine surgeons, Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, and Issada Thongtrangan, MD, discuss their hopes for the next five years of their career.

Venu M. Nemani, MD, PhD, of Raleigh (N.C.) Orthopaedic Clinic is joining Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer back pain related to vertebral compression fractures (VCF) every year, in many cases related to osteoporosis, but the spine specialist community at large has not agreed upon the most effective clinical care pathway.1 Vertebral…

Orthopedic surgeon and medical director of the spine program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Dennis Devito, MD, has won the Physician Award for the 2019 Health Care Heroes Awards, reports Atlanta Business Chronical.