Here are more than 50 spine and neurosurgeons who joined new practices or added to their titles in 2023.
Note: This is not an exhaustive list.
January
Neurosurgeon Nicholas Theodore, MD, joined the medical advisory board for Harvard MedTech.
George Frey, MD, and Gregory Basil, MD, joined Aclarion as an advisers.
Phillip Behrens, MD, joined Masson Spine Institute in Orlando, Fla.
February
Salem (Ohio) Regional Medical Center hired spine surgeon David Prior, MD.
Todd Peters, MD, joined DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach (Calif.) as a physician partner.
Neurosurgeons Dr. Mauricio Mandel, PhD, and Ivan Stoev, MD, have joined Cleveland Clinic Martin Health.
Kern Singh, MD, was named associate director of the spine division at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
March
Aclarion added Alpesh Patel, MD, co-director of Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Center for Spine Health, as a key opinion leader and physician adviser.
Vanessa Milano, MD, joined Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian JFK University Medical Center's Neuroscience Institute.
Spine surgeon Paul Canale, MD, retired from Daphne, Ala.-based Baldwin Bone & Joint.
April
Thomas Zdeblick, MD, joined Orthopedic & Spine Centers of Wisconsin in Madison.
Anthony Asher, MD, was named president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and John Knightly, MD, was named vice president.
May
Aclarion added Dean Karahalios, MD, as a surgeon advisor.
Nicholas Theodore, MD, was named as the principal investigator for a post-market trial evaluating Aclarion's Nociscan for diagnosing back pain.
Deeptee Jain, MD, has joined The Center for Bone & Joint Surgery of the Palm Beaches (Fla.).
Vishal Khatri, MD, joined Morganville, N.J.-based Alliance Orthopedics.
Stuart Kinsella, MD, joined The Steadman Clinic's Aspen and Basalt, Colo. locations.
June
Spine surgeon Jason Smith, MD, joined OrthoArkansas in Little Rock.
Brian Cole, MD, has joined The Valley Hospital In Ridgewood (N.J.), part of Valley Health System.
Kevin Mansfield, MD, joined Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center's department of neurosurgery.
July
Bassel Diebo, MD, joined University Orthopedics’ Center for Spine Health.
David Vecchione, MD, joined Spine & Orthopedic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
J. Patrick Johnson, MD, joined DISC Sports and Spine Center to launch the practice's Marina del Rey, Calif. surgery center.
Neurosurgeon Ranjit Ganguly, MD, joined OrthoNeuro and is practicing at its New Albany, Grove City and Pickerington, Ohio locations.
Spinal neurosurgeon Juan Mejia Munne, MD, joined Cincinnati-based Mayfield Brain & Spine.
Brian Hoeflinger, MD, and David Lewis, MD, are joining Mercy Health — The Neuroscience Institute, St. Luke's in Maumee, Ohio.
The Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has added spine surgeon Wayne Bruffett, MD.
August
Cincinnati-based Mayfield Brain & Spine has added neurosurgeon Michael Robinson, MD, PhD.
Neurostimulation technology innovator BackStop Neural has appointed neurosurgeon Steven Falowski, MD, to its advisory board.
Jeffrey Wang, MD, joined Bioretec's scientific advisory board.
Zachary Johnson, MD, has joined Dallas Neurosurgical & Spine.
Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware Valley in Wilmington, named Suken Shah, MD, as The Shands/MacEwen Endowed chair of orthopedics and chair of the orthopedic surgery department.
Spine surgeon Daniel Kim, MD, joined Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Ala.
September
Galal Elsayed, MD, a neurosurgeon, has joined the faculty of the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center in New York City.
UP Health System Marquette in Michigan added neurosurgeon Elizabeth Hogan, MD, to the Brain and Spine Center.
Marinus de Kleuver, MD, PhD, accepted the role of president of the Scoliosis Research Society.
Joseph Schwab, MD, will lead Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's spine-oncology program and the Center for Surgical Technology and AI Research.
Spine surgeon Mohamed Salar, MD, joined MSU Health Care Sports Medicine in East Lansing, Mich.
Joshua Kolz, MD, joined The Spine Center at Black Hills Orthopedics in Rapid City, S.D.
Spine surgeon Zachary Bailey, MD, joined OrthoSC in Myrtle Beach.
October
Stephen Hochschuler, MD, of Plano-based Texas Back Institute, joined Backstop Neural's advisory board.
Courtney Toombs, MD, a minimally invasive spinal surgeon, has joined Patchogue, N.Y.-based Spine Medicine and Surgery of Long Island.
Sigurd Berven, MD, was added to NovApproach Spine's board of managers.
Zachary NaPier, MD, joined Carmel-based Indiana Spine Group.
Zoher Ghogawala, MD, is the new president of the North American Spine Society.
Spine surgeon Mario Taylor, MD, joined OrthoArizona in Chandler.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock named Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, MD, as co-director of spine services.
James Hicks, MD, joined the Spine Institute team at Baldwin Bone & Joint in Daphne, Ala.
November
John Braca, III, MD, was named chief of neurosurgery at the UPMC Neurological Institute and hospital services in central and north central Pennsylvania.
Healthcare technology company Aclarion has added Roger Härtl, MD, as its 10th and final member of its key opinion leaders panel.
Golden, Colo.-based Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center added Justin Ledesma, MD.
Hamadi Murphy, MD, joined Orlando (Fla.) Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute.
Richard Allen, MD, PhD, was appointed as the first of the Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD and Nasrin A. Owsia, MD Endowed Chair in Spinal Surgery at the University of California San Diego.