Spine

Orthopedic spine surgeon Keith Wilkey, MD, will join Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital and the Foothills Medical Group, effective March 26, The Bradford Era reports.

A new study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine examines bundled payment reimbursement for anterior and posterior spine surgeries.

Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif., is now offering an around-the-clock neurosurgery program, The Foothills Sun-Gazette reports.

Here are five spine and neurosurgeons who recently received awards or promotions.

Olawale Sulaiman, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon and the system chairman of the neurosurgery department at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans. He also travels to Nigeria every month to perform free surgery, WWLTV reports.

Jean-Pierre Mobasser, MD, was elected to serve as president of Indianapolis-based Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine. He is the third president of the practice.

Intraoperative neuromonitoring services provider Assure Holdings added Jeffrey Ratusznik, MD, to its Texas network.

Charles Wilson, MD, UC San Francisco professor emeritus, died Feb. 24 from natural causes, according to the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery News website. He was 88 years old.

Christopher M. Bono, MD, will be the fourth editor in chief of The Spine Journal.

Patients receiving 150 milligrams of pregabalin a day to treat pain after posterior lumbar fusion did not have reduced IV narcotic usage, improved physical therapy milestones or reduced length of hospital stay, according to a study in the HSS Journal.