Spine

Here are eight spine and neurosurgeons making headlines:

Carmel-based Indiana Spine Group President Rick C. Sasso, MD, was awarded $112 million in damages after winning a five-year legal battle against Medtronic Nov. 27, according to Indianapolis Business Journal.

Due to court scheduling conflicts, the bankruptcy fraud sentencing of Cathleen Van Buskirk, MD, has been pushed back to 2019, according to Daily Camera Boulder News.

Former Rockford, Ill.-based OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center CEO David Schertz testified that the hospital drafted a plan to handle the media's questions about a neurosurgeon who was hired after allowing her license to go inactive, according to rrstar.com.

Kola Jegede, MD, is the new director of quality and safety for spine services at New York City-based NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.

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Reston, Va.-based Virginia Spine Institute added spine surgeon Ehsan Jazini, MD, to its team.

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The Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at Morgantown-based West Virginia University enrolled the first patient in a clinical trial of an injectable non-opioid, non-steroid micropellet for sciatica treatment.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., suggested the CDC needs more funding to combat a rare polio-like illness that is rampaging across the nation, according to Fox 5.