Spine

Todd Lanman, MD, of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Lanman Spinal Neurosurgery, will lead an artificial disc replacement presentation at the Marina Del (Calif.) Rey Hospital April 17.

In December 2017, a federal grand jury indicted spine surgeon Cathleen Van Buskirk, MD, for bankruptcy scheme allegations. Daily Camera Boulder News  reports she is scheduled for a federal court trial in May. 

In the April 1 special insert, Spine included an article examining the future of robotics in spine surgery by Vikas Patel, MD, a surgeon at The Spine Center of University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.

An infection control breach at Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital may have put orthopedic and spine surgery patients at risk for surgical site infections or hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV, according to a statement from the Colorado Department of Public…

Here are 10 spine surgeon leaders to know.

Saad B. Chaudhary, MD, of New York City-based Mount Sinai, earned recognition as a New York Top Doctor for 2018.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for April 5, 2018.

Here are 32 spine and neurosurgeons that joined new organizations, moved locations or received promotions in the first quarter of 2018.

Tiger Woods may win his first major title in a decade at the 2018 Masters in Augusta, Ga., after undergoing spinal fusion surgery last year, USA Today reports.

After overcoming what David Cech, MD, told Rich Dauer, was a 3 percent chance of survival, Mr. Dauer threw the first pitch of the Houston Astros' first home game after the team unveiled its World Series banner, The Baltimore Sun…