Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons who were in the news this past week.
Neurosurgeon Jeffrey Masciopinto, MD, joined the advisory board for Wellbe's, an integrated care delivery solutions provider.
Fred Sweet, MD, a spine surgeon at Rockford (Ill.) Spine Center is traveling the United States to teach the transforaminal anterior release procedure.
Glenn Trent, MD, joined Mountain Spine Care in Clyde, N.C.
Maxwell Boakye, MD, was named the principal investigator at the University of Louisville (Ky.) cite for the INSPIRE study examining InVivo Therapeutics technology.
Neurosurgeon Stuart Lee, MD, was named the principal investigator at the Greenville, N.C.-based Vidant Medical Center for the INSPIRE study examining InVivo Therapeutics technology.
Spine surgeon Hyun Bae, MD, of Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, was featured discussing Stryker's newly-released Aero-C spinal fusion implant. He helped develop the Aero technology.
Kornelis Poelstra, MD, completed more than 150 complex spine cases with the Mazor Robotics Renaissance spine system.
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates in Charlotte, N.C., spine surgeon Dom Coric, MD, was featured discussing the Spine Wave recently-licensed Pivoting Spacer System patents from Atlas Spine.
Hooman Melamed, MD, of Disc Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., was featured in a Advanced Healthcare Network report discussing text neck.
Lake Regional Health System welcomed Fassil Mesfin, MD, PhD, with the University of Missouri Health Care.