Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons in the news this past week:
Andrew Manista, MD, performed the first robotic-assisted spine surgery in Washington using the Mazor Robotics Renaissance Guidance System.
Jonathan Tuttle, MD, joined Dayton, Ohio-based Clinical Neuroscience Institute, a part of Premier Health Specialists.
Kaliq Chang, MD, of West Orange, N.J.-based Atlantic Spine Center, will present a seminar titled, "Stem Cells: An Effective Alternative to Spine Surgery."
Australian neurosurgeon Ralph Mobbs, MD, of the Sydney Spine Clinic, implanted the first three-dimensional printed vertebra into a cancer patient.
Orthopedic spine surgeons Kern Singh, MD, and Frank M. Phillips, MD, designed the Vital 5 ReLeaf Catheter for spine and orthopedic procedures.
Osage Beach, Mo.-based Lake Regional Health System welcomes Fassil Mesfin, MD, PhD, to its team.
Albert L. Rhoton Jr., MD, of University of Florida College of Medicine died in his Gainesville home on Feb. 21.
Manhasset, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, previously known as the North Shore-LIJ Health System, named David Langer, MD, chair of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
Fred Sweet, MD, a spine surgeon and co-founder of Rockford (Ill.) Spine Center, recently served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.