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Masaki Oishi, MD, board certified neurosurgeon, will begin performing surgeries with the Mazor Robotics Renaissance System at the Kraus Back and Neck Institute in Houston.

Here are seven things for spinal surgeons to know for March 7, 2013.

Bryan Oh, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon with BASIC Spine in Orange, Calif. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He is also a reviewer for journals, including Neurosurgery and World Neurosurgery.

Haralambos Demetriades, MD, board-certified spine surgeon, has joined the Freehold, N.J., CentraState Medical Center, according to a FreeholdPatch report.

Here are seven things for spinal surgeons to know for Feb. 28, 2013.

Fernando Techy, MD, is a spine surgeon at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute in Morton Grove. He is also an assistant professor of clinical orthopedics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Karl W. Swann, MD, of Neurosurgical Associates of San Antonio, discusses the importance of physician leadership and how surgeons can become politically active today.

Here are eight big reimbursement trends for spine surgeons to watch.

Christopher Kauffman, MD, a fellowship trained spine surgeon, has joined the TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center team in Nashville, Tenn., according to a report by The Tennessean.

Michael McKee, MD, has joined North American Spine in San Antonio as a physician partner, according to the Beaumont Enterprise.