Spine

The Spine Health Foundation will give a presentation about spine surgery coverage at the 14th Annual International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery Conference in May 2014.

Spine surgeons at Hospital for Special Surgery evaluated neurological deficits after lateral lumbar interbody fusion for a new study published in Spine.

David A. Wong, MD, past president of the North American Spine Society and current co-chairman of the NASS Value Task Force, recently moderated a panel on the value of spine care at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.

Agostino Visioni, MD, a neurosurgeon with Annapolis-based Maryland Brain and Spine, is opening an office in La Plata, Md., according to a Southern Maryland Newspapers Online report.  

Long Island Spine Specialists in Commack, N.Y., announced the addition of Christopher Frendo, DO, to its medical staff, according to a Long Island Newsday report.

Orthopedic spine surgeon Bennett Grimm, MD, shares insight into the latest trends and advances in minimally invasive spine surgery.

Spine surgeons and researchers recently published an article in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery comparing complications, reoperation rates and costs for patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spondylolisthesis.

The Orthopaedic & Spine Center in Newport News, Va., announced the launch of its inaugural online campaign via Facebook in support of the Foodbank of the Virginia Peninsula.

Ziya Gokaslan, MD, is the vice chairman of neurosurgery and director of the neurosurgical spine center at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He is also a board-certified neurological surgeon and a professor of neurological surgery, orthopedic surgery and oncology at…

Sigurd Berven, MD, professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of California San Francisco gave a presentation titled "Determining Value Through Identification of Independent Predictors of the Cost for Spine Surgery," at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting in…