In June, Robert Watkins, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon and co-director of the Marina Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., is scheduled to perform spine surgery on the New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, according to an ESPN Boston report.

Chinyere Obasi, MBBS, MD, neurosurgeon, has joined the visiting specialist staff of Community Hospital in McCook, Neb., according to a McCook Daily Gazette report.

In a recent study published in Surgical Neurology International, researchers studied Deuk Laser Disc Repair, a full-endoscopic surgical procedure, as a safe and effective treatment of symptomatic cervical disc disease.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, May 30, 2013.

Three spine surgeons talk about what current surgeons and practitioners can learn from their experienced predecessors.

Leesburg, Va.-based K2M has launched its MESA small stature spinal system for Australian, New Zealand and European markets.

Mazor Robotics' gross profit for the first quarter more than doubled from $1.9 million in 2012 to $4 million in the three month period ending March 31.

The Department of Defense has awarded the North American Clinical Trials Network of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation a $2 million grant for research on the treatment of spinal cord injuries, according to a R&D report.

Stefan Prada, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla., discusses four current and emerging issues that are affecting spine surgeons.

Two recent Laser Spine Institute studies on lumbar spinal stenosis were published in recent editions of the Journal of Spine and Journal of Orthopaedics, according to Medical News Today.