Minimally invasive spine surgery has been rapidly evolving for decades, and the resurgence of the attempt to perform more appropriately invasive surgical techniques will continue to develop.

As a part of a planned expansion, University Medical Center in Lafayette, La., will open an orthopedic clinic. The clinic is expected on open on July 1, after Lafayette (La.) General Medical Center takes over UMC.

Joseph Yu, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, and Roddy McGee, DO, board-certified in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine, have joined Mesa View Regional Hospital in Mesquite, Nev., as independent medical staff members, according to a Mesquite Citizen Journal report.

OrthoNeuro, based in Columbus, Ohio, has announced that Sandy Lane, MD, and Keith LaDu, DO, have joined its multispecialty practice.

Sonu Ahluwalia, MD, board-certified in orthopedics and sports medicine, is clinical chief of orthopedic surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, Calif., and supervisor of the sports medicine department of the division of orthopedic surgery.

Brian Cohen, MD, of Adena Health System in Chillicothe, Ohio, was the first U.S. surgeon to use the Arthrex Reverse Universe shoulder implant device, which was approved by the FDA on May 31.

Here are 12 statistics on how orthopedists view compensation for their jobs, the choices they made and the most satisfying aspects of what they do, according to the Medscape Orthopedist Compensation Report: 2013.

Samuel Young, MD, is board-certified in orthopedics and sports medicine. In 2010, Dr. Young founded his private practice, Young Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Jacksonville, Fla. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas – Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and completed his fellowship training at Duke University in Durham, N.C.  

At the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference on June 14, Kenneth Pettine, MD, founder of The Spine Institute, presented on stem cell treatments in a session titled “The Latest Development in Stem Cell Treatments as Applied to Spine.”

Yesterday, Brian Cohen, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, implanted the first Arthrex Reverse Universe shoulder device in the U.S., according to a WBEX report.