Here are 14 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons that joined new organizations, moved locations or received promotions in January 2018.
Roderick Claybrooks, MD, joined Tampa, Fla.-based BioSpine Institute.
Tampa, Fla.-based Physician Partners of American welcomed minimally invasive spine surgeon James St. Louis, DO.
Kirkland, Wash.-based EvergreenHealth welcomed Dustin Hayward, MD, to its spine and neurosurgical team.
Brunswick-based Southeast Georgia Physician Associates-Neurosciences welcomed Justin S. Whitlow, MD.
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Medical Group welcomed five neurosurgeons to Park Ridge, Ill.-based Advocate Lutheran General Hospital:
- Egon Doppenberg, MD
- Dean Karahalios, MD
- Jonathan Liu, MD
- Patrick Sugrue, MD
- Robert Givens Kellogg, MD
Spine surgeon Jason Kelly, MD, joined Fargo, N.D.-based Essentia Health-32nd Avenue Clinic.
HaysMed of the University of Kansas Health System added spine surgeon Max Franco De Carvalho, MD.
John S. Kuo, MD, PhD, will serve as the inaugural neurosurgery chair of the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School.
UC San Diego Health selected Alexander Khalessi, MD, to serve as its neurosurgery chair. He will also serve as chief of neurosurgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Neurosurgeon Adesh Tandon, MD, joined the neurosurgery department at Binghamton, N.Y.-based United Health Services Hospitals.