Spine

Board certified neurosurgeon John Wanebo, MD, was featured on ABC 15's Sonoran Living to discuss how Phoenix-based Barrow Brain and Spine's team of neurosurgeons utilize technology to treat patients with complex spine and brain conditions.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Columbus-based The Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center researchers analyzed the cause of immune suppression in people with high-level spinal cord injuries, according to Medical Xpress.

Stefan Parent, MD, PhD, of Canada-based CHU Sainte-Justine, and his team developed an assessment tool to analyze adolescent past and residual spinal growth, according to Medical Xpress.

Researchers sought to determine the variability in spinal radiosurgery planning practices among five international institutions, according to BioMed Central.

CBS featured Ashraf Hanna, MD, and Scott Webb, DO, both of Clearwater-based Florida Spine Institute, speaking on artificial disc replacement.

International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery named Hee Kit Wong, MD, PhD, president.

A new study published in The Spine Journal examines whether lumbar and cervical spine surgery outcomes meet patients' expectations.

Physicians in the highest income tax brackets, including spine surgeons, may have been presented with an unpleasant surprise in the last two years when they learned of their investment tax liability.

Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who joined new practices or took new leadership positions in March 2016.

In a Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.-sponsored webinar titled, "The role of microsurgery and navigation in minimally invasive spinal surgery," Roger Härtl, MD, of New York City Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine, discussed how to combine microsurgical techniques, navigation and…