Here are 10 spine and neurosurgeons making headlines this week.
Greenbelt, Md.-based Advanced Pain Medicine Institute Orthopaedic, Sports Health & Regenerative Medicine recently added Said Oman, MD, to its medical staff. Dr. Oman won the Kambin Foundation Annual Award for endoscopic spine surgery research and received the Lifetime-Time Achievement Award by the World Congress of Spine Endoscopy in July.
President of the North American Spine Society, Jeffrey Wang, MD, spoke to Becker's about the initiatives he established, accomplishments achieved and how he managed to juggle his clinical practice with the added responsibilities as president.
Myron Rolle, MD, a neurosurgery resident at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is flying to the Bahamas to aid locals following the destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian. Dr. Rolle is a third-year resident and part of a 10-person team from Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health Office of Global Disaster Response.
James Chappuis, MD, of Spine Center Atlanta, discussed how spinal fusion can become more cost-effective, the key to OR efficiency and future trends in outpatient fusion procedures.
Pasadena Magazine recognized Robert Cho, MD, chief of staff and pediatric orthopedic spine surgeon at Shriners for Children Medical Center — Pasadena, Calif., as a Top Doctor. Dr. Cho focuses on scoliosis, spinal deformity surgery, limb deformity and pediatric orthopedic trauma.
Spine surgeon Anuj Patel, MD, joined OrthoAtlanta, which has 39 physicians providing musculoskeletal care across 14 offices. Dr. Patel treats all spinal conditions of the neck and back, including degenerative, traumatic, oncologic and deformity conditions. He also treats pediatric orthopedic spine conditions, including scoliosis.
Benjamin Burkett, MD, recently joined Newark, Ohio-based Orthopedic Specialists & Sports Medicine. Dr. Burkett spoke to Becker's about his new practice and shared insight on cost savings and future trends in outpatient spinal fusions.
Neurosurgeon Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD, was recently appointed to the scientific advisory board of Immunomic Therapeutics. Dr. Chiocca has almost 25 years of experience in neuro-oncology and neurosurgery. He specializes in engineering biologic agents into selective anticancer agents, with a focus on brain tumors.
Phillip Langer, MD, medical director of orthopedic sports medicine at Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians in Atlanta, was recognized as a 2019 Top Orthopedic Surgeon by Georgia Magazine Top Doctors. Dr. Langer specializes in ulnar collateral ligament repair, rotator cuff repair, knee reconstruction, total and partial knee replacement and hip arthroscopy among other procedures.
Richard Lee, MD, of Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine, Calif., performed a cervical spine revision surgery to fix a C1 ring that flipped horizontally to rest on a patient's C2 vertebrae. Dr. Lee removed the hardware implanted in her neck from an initial surgery. He then re-broke the patient's neck to recreate the injury and extract the healed bone matter from her body's response to the natural healing process.