Spine

Most spine practices around the country are small businesses, owned and operated by entrepreneurial-minded surgeons who founded the group some years ago.

Dayton, Ohio-based Wright State Physicians Orthopaedics added Mark Kayanja, MD, PhD, and he will begin seeing patients at the Wright State Physicians Health Center in Fairborn, Ohio, Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton and Atrium Medical Center in Franklin, Ohio.

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists launched an awareness campaign to educate the community.

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medicine unveiled its new $5.5 million Neuromedicine Intensive Care Unit, located in Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery issued the ISASS Policy Statement — Cervical Interbody in the International Journal of Spine Surgery.

Vail (Colo.)-Summit Orthopaedics hired spine surgeon James Perry, DO, who will officially begin with the practice at the end of August, according to a Vail Daily report.

Some apples don't fall far from the tree. For father-son and father-daughter spine and neurosurgeon teams, that distance can sometimes be microscopic.

Chukwuka Okafor, MD, relocated Spine Institute of Central Florida's Lakeland office to a new location in Lakeland, according to a report by The Ledger.

Here are eight spine surgeons and neurosurgeons that joined new groups over the past few months.

  Dr. Marinko Rade received the 2014 Young Investigator Award from Spine for his article published in July 2014.