Here are 11 orthopedic spine and neurosurgeons in the news this week.
University of Arizona Medical Center Trauma Center surgeons Randall Friese, MD, and Rein Anton, MD, PhD, will lead a study at the center of a new drug designed for patients with spinal cord injury.
Co-director of the Northwestern Medicine Spine Center in Chicago Alpesh A. Patel, MD, was awarded the 2015 American Orthopaedic Association's American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellowship.
Michael Haglund, MD, PhD, of Duke University in Durham, N.C., was featured in a JDNews report talking about his medical volunteer trip to Uganda where he trained physicians and performed free surgery for patients in need.
Neurosurgeon Daniel Peterson, MD, was named assistant chief medical officer and to the medical advisory board for value-based healthcare company EmployerDirect.
Florida-based spine surgeon Michael Gleiber, MD, is now writing a blog for Huffington Post, including a popular article this week on the "Common Misconceptions About Spine Surgery."
Irving, Texas-based SpineCARE's Douglas Won, MD, was named among the top 10 local orthopedic doctors by Vitals.com.
William Whitehead, MD, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston partnered with colleagues from around the world to perform the first two-port fetoscopic procedure to repair spina bifida in-utero.
William Reid, MD, a neurosurgeon focused on minimally invasive spine surgery, was featured in a Knox News report talking about his journey to become a neurosurgeon and plans to retire this year.
My Fox Orlando covered a report about how Donald Sachs, MD, performed a minimally invasive sacroiliac joint surgery procedure using SI-BONE's iFuse Implant System to treat a former San Francisco 49ers Gold Rush cheerleader's back pain.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital spine surgeon Wellington Hsu, MD, was featured for a recent study examining which activities can be most harmful to a young athlete's spine and presented his research at the Lumbar Spine Research Society annual meeting.
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