Jeffrey M. Colbert, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, has been named a partner of the Marina del Rey, Calif., location of DISC Sports & Spine Center.

Hooman Melamed, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon. He practices at DISC Sports and Spine Center, with offices in Marina del Rey and Beverly Hills, Calif., and serves as an adjunct assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Touro School of Medicine in Las Vegas. Dr. Melamed received the Depuy Spinal Fellowship award after completing his complex spin surgery fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He discusses why he choose the field of spine, the recent surgery on surfer Joey Hawkins and what he sees for the future of spine.

Hooman Melamed, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, performed a pro bono anterior lumbar interbody fusion on world champion surfer Joey Hawkins, according to an Orange County Register report.

Karen Reiter, administrator at DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., discusses five initiatives her surgery center has taken on to improve the patient and physician experience at the ASC.

Diagnostic and Interventional Surgical Center, the ambulatory surgery center arm of  DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., has done over 7,000 cases since it opened its doors in 2006 and reported a zero surgical site infection rate during that time.

DISC Sports & Spine Center based in Los Angeles and Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian's Neurosciences Institute in Newport Beach, Calif., announced a co-management agreement to develop a minimally-invasive neurosurgical spine program for patients with spine-related neurological disorders.

Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, neurosurgeon and CEO of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif., believes that outpatient surgery centers and spine specialty hospitals are the future of elective spine surgery. He moved out of his role as head of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles to open his own practice, and has since developed two surgery centers where surgeons perform complex minimally invasive orthopedic and spine cases.

Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, is the founder and CEO of DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey, Calif. He has a special interest in minimally invasive spinal procedures and has been on the forefront of research and development in the field throughout his career.

John Knight, MD, director of the Hand and Wrist Institute at DISC Sports & Spine Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., discusses the unique ways his practice attracts patients from around the world.

DISC Sports & Spine Center, based in Marina del Rey, Calif., recently opened a new location in Newport Beach that includes an ambulatory surgery center, according to a practice news release.