Spine

Castle Connolly named Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based NSPC Brain & Spine Surgery physicians to its 2016 Top Doctors, New York Metro Area list.

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery appointed Joel Press, MD, the department of physiatry chairman and physiatrist-in-chief, effective September 2016.

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield West Virginia named Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital a Blue Distinction Center Plus for Spine Surgery, according to hearld-dipatch.com.

Here four spine surgeons discuss the activities they enjoy outside of their careers.

Joseph Piatt Jr., MD, wrote an article on the hospitalization of patients with myelomeningocele in the 21st century.

Wheaton, Ill.-based Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital joined Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine.

Here are 12 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons that joined new organizations or received promotions in February.

Glenn Trent, MD, joined Mountain Spine Care in Clyde, N.C., according to a Citizen-Times report.

Fred Sweet, MD, of Rockford (Ill.) Spine Center, is traveling around the United States teaching the tranforaminal anterior release procedure, according to 13 WREX.

Phoenix-based Barrow Neurological Institute researchers are testing the effect of deep brain stimulation on Alzheimer's disease, according to Medical Xpress.