Spine

Firoz Miyanji, MD, of British Columbia Children's Hospital in Canada, is the first surgeon in the country to use vertebral body tethering as an alternative treatment for scoliosis, according to Global News.

Interventional spine specialist David Moorthi, MD, joined Syracuse, N.Y.-based St. Joseph's Health.

Researchers surveyed orthopedic spine surgery fellowship directors about spine-related adverse events and hospital-acquired conditions in a new Spine study.

Pain management and minimally invasive spine care specialist Sukdeb Datta, MD, joins other physicians from more than 40 specialties on the "Super Doctors of New York" list.

Dean Smith, MD, of El Paso (Texas) Spine Center, has garnered an impressive Instagram following with his quirky photos, according to The Daily Dot.

Loveland-based Colorado Clinic now offers patients stem cell therapy for their back pain.

University of Colorado Boulder researchers studied the impact of opioids on chronic pain in lab rats, according to Science News Hub.

Pain management physician Whitney L. Chouteau, DO, joined Medical & Surgical Clinic of Irving (Texas).

Here are six spine surgeons and neurosurgeons in the news this past week.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins teamed up neurosurgery and biomedical engineering to form the Carnegie Center for Surgical Innovation.