Spine

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has named James C. Metcalf Jr., MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery and announced that he will provide care at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.

At the North American Spine Society 28th Annual Meeting earlier this month, several spine surgeons gathered to discuss the current controversies with minimally invasive lumbar fusion and whether to adopt it for their practices.

Four spine surgeons discuss the steps they take to increase patient satisfaction.

Here are eight things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.

Spine surgeons and researchers recently studied patients who underwent cervical laminoplasty and posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion for cervical spondylotic myelopathy to compare costs and published the results in the International Journal of Spine Surgery.

San Antonio-based Victory Medical Center recently named Karl Swann, MD, medical director at Victory Medical Center Landmark.

Carol A. Mancuso, MD, and his colleagues from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, have developed a patient-derived survey to record patient expectations of lumbar spine surgery, according to a study published in The Journal of Bone &…

Stacey Q. Wolfe, MD, neurosurgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has joined a satellite practice in Lexington, N.C., according to a report by The Dispatch.

TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has opened the $3.5 million Joint and Spine Center, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System announced it has added a new neurosurgery residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.