Spine

Drew Dossett, MD, a spine surgeon at Carrell Clinic in Dallas, performed spine surgery today on Texas Rangers slugger Prince Fielder, according to an ESPN Dallas/Fort Worth report.

  The Scoliosis Research Society awarded eight spine surgeons from the United States the OrthoPediatric North American Resident/Fellow Meeting Scholarships.

  Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., announced that Harold Pikus, MD, will join its medical staff in June.

  Carbondale-based Southern Illinois Healthcare has implemented Priority Consult Spine, a workflow solution, to support its neuroscience program.

A study recently published in Spine compares in-hospital morbidity and mortality rates between the anterior and nonanterior approach procedures for thoracic disc herniation.

neuReference, a new application developed to help medical students on their neurosurgery rotation and neurosurgery residents, is available on the app store on iTunes, according to an iMedicalApps report.

Here are five important updates from professional spine societies in the last month:

The Medical College of Wisconsin received $1 million from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Division to study treatment for spinal cord injury patients, according to a report in the Milwaukee Business Journal.

An article recently published in Spine compares the length of stay for patients after undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with and without corpectomy.

Written by Dick Pepper, principal at VoxMD, a healthcare marketing and technology firm.