Spine

Here are eight spine and neurosurgeons making headlines:

Board-certified neurosurgeon Alex Mohit, MD, PhD, joined Puyallup, Wash.-based NeoSpine.

Kuwaiti neurosurgeon Hisham Al-Khayat, MD, and his wife were denied entry into the U.S. despite possessing valid nonimmigrant visas, the Miami Herald reports.

The American Board of Neurological Surgery elected Steven Kalkanis, MD, to serve as its director for a six-year term, according to The Oakland Press.

Doximity received more than 315,000 peer nominations, ratings and hand-written reviews to determine its top residency programs for 2018-19.

Buffalo (N.Y.) firefighters are set to collect $150,000 in donations in an annual campaign to fight spinal muscular atrophy, WIVB4.com reports.

Suguna Pappu, MD, PhD, joined Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine.

The free online calculator SpineSage can assist in preoperative planning and counseling for spine surgery patients, according to a study in European Spine Journal.

Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, founder of the Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles, discusses how his hobbies help him improve his practice.

An internal audit at LSU Health Shreveport (La.) focused on the former chairman of the neurosurgery department, accused of billing for procedures he did not perform; instead, the audit found he was the "supervising physician" while residents performed the procedures,…