Here are 10 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons who were in the news this week.
Alexander Vaccaro, MD, was featured in a News Works report discussing physicians earning their business degrees.
Neurosurgeon Martin Gryfinski, MD, joined SwedishAmerican, a division of UW Health, in Rockford, Ill.
Chicago-based Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine neurological surgery chief Andrew Parsa, MD, passed away suddenly.
Novant Health Pinnacle Orthopedics in Salisbury, N.C., welcomed Eugene Eline, DO, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon.
Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, received the Cortes de Cadiz Price in the surgery category by the city council of Spain.
Mark McFarland, MD, became the first spine surgeon in Virginia to perform a procedure using SpineFrontier's Arena-C HA interbody device with PEEK-OPTIMA HA Enhanced.
Robert Knetsche, MD, of the Spine Center of Central Kentucky, is the first surgeon to perform surgery using ChoiceSpine's THUNDERBOLT Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw System.
Neurosurgeon William Scholley, MD, of Neurosurgical Associates, applied for a certificate of need with the Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency to open an ambulatory surgery center — the Turner Surgery Center.
Laser Spine Institute's co-founder and chief medical director Michael Perry, MD, gave a presentation about minimally invasive spine surgery on an episode of Live On Lakeside.
Neurological surgeon Kerry L. Bernardo, MD, joined the staff at Southern Bone and Joint Specialists in Hattiesburg.