More than 60 spine surgeons moved to new practices or added to their titles in 2024:
Note: This is not an exhaustive list.
January
Augustus "AJ" Rush, III, MD, joined Plano-based Texas Spine Consultants.
Rohan Lall, MD, was named chief medical officer of SynerFuse.
Sanjay Khurana, MD, and Hyun Bae, MD, are leading the new Center for Spine Economics, Outcomes & Research from Los Angeles-based Commons Clinic.
Kalman Blumberg, MD, joined Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Holy Cross Medical Group.
Moscow, Idaho-based Gritman Medical Center has added neurosurgeon Nicholas Levine, MD, to launch its new Gritman neurosurgery practice.
February
Spine surgeon William Kunkle, DO, joined Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Florida Healthcare and will work at three of its hospitals.
Donald Staggs, MD, has joined Cincinnati-based Mayfield Brain & Spine as part of a collaboration between the system and Mercy Health.
Ehud Mendel, MD, was named the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
Spine surgeon Gannon Randolph, MD, joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Lowell.
Neurosurgeon Osama Kashlan, MD, joined New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine's neurological surgery department and will see patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist.
March
LMH Health in Lawrence, Kan., added spine surgeon Hemil Maniar, MD.
Juan Ronderos, MD, joined South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley, Ala.
Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates in Salisbury, Md., added spine surgeon Shalin Patel, MD.
The Spine Center at Valley View in Glenwood Springs, Colo., brought on board spine surgeon Felipe Ituarte, MD.
April
Ali Baaj, MD, was named systemwide chief of spine surgery at Phoenix-based Banner Health.
C. Rory Goodwin, MD, PhD, was named director of spine services at Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis in Durham, N.C.
Adam Kanter, MD, was named executive medical director of Hoag's Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute in Newport Beach, Calif.
Geneva (N.Y.) General Hospital added neurosurgeon Lucas Aurich, MD, to its medical staff.
Spine surgeon Adam Schell, MD, joined Omaha-based Nebraska Spine + Pain Center and began working there April 1.
May
Chicago-based Rush named Kern Singh, MD, vice chair of clinical affairs in the department of orthopedic surgery and director of the spine surgery division at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.
Hospital for Special Surgery at NCH in Naples, Fla., added Nicholas Clark, MD.
Michael Wolff, MD, was named the first master instructor for the Discseel procedure, a minimally invasive outpatient spine treatment.
Peter Passias, MD, joined the Duke Spine Division in Durham, N.C., as an associate chief, co-chair, medical director of the spine research program, and co-chair of the spine protocol review committee.
July
Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, was named chief medical officer of HSS Florida.
Sean Keem, MD, joined Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Amit Bhandarkar, MD, joined SSM Health Medical Group's Centralia, Ill., location.
The Oregon Clinic Neurosurgery & Spine West in Portland added spine surgeon Aqib Zehri, MD.
Houman Khosrovi, MD, joined Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health Medical Center.
August
Bhargav Desai, MD, joined Mercyhealth in Rockford, Ill.
Alexander Tuchman, MD, was named co-director of Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles.
Carmel-based Indiana Spine Group added spine surgeons Daniel Robinson, MD, Peter Swiatek, MD, and neurosurgeon Shah Ahmad, MD.
Michael Faloon, MD, joined Westbury-based New York Spine Institute.
Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Sugar Land (Texas) Hospital added spine Alexander Molinari, DO.
Firelands Physician Group in Sandusky, Ohio, added neurosurgeon Eric Bialaski, DO.
Raleigh (N.C.) Orthopaedic Clinic added Ryan Patrick McLynn, MD, and Yuri Pompeu, MD, PhD.
Terre Haute, Ind.-based Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine has added spine specialist Paul Page, MD.
Michael Stark, DO, joined Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group and is working in Delray Beach, Fla. and West Boca, Fla.
Rachel Bratescu, MD, joined Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University Hospital, according to an email to Becker's.
September
Jonathan Sherman, MD, was named chief of neurosurgical oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute in New Brunswick, N.J.
Carmel, Ind.-based Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine added spinal neurosurgeons Miracle Anokwute, MD.
Dallas-based Texas Spine Consultants added Haariss Ilyas, MD.
Neurosurgeon Kevin Foley, MD, was named chief medical officer of True Digital Surgery.
The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus in Topeka added spine surgeon Olusegun Onibonoje, DO.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Orthopedic Clinic has added orthopedic spine surgeon Mark Woernle, MD.
D. Scott Kreiner, MD, became the new president of the North American Spine Society.
Lynchburg-based OrthoVirginia added Cameron Murphy, MD.
Somers Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine Group added Ezriel Kornel, MD.
October
W. Travis Stoll, MD, joined Golden, Colo.-based Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center.
Joseph Romano, MD, joined Savannah, Ga.-based Chatham Orthopaedic Associates.
Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics added Parth Kothari, MD.
Daniel Webb, MD, joined AdventHealth Medical Group Neurosurgery at Rome (Ga.).
OrthoCarolina added spine surgeon Petros Koutsogiannis, DO.
Spine surgeon Alexander Akoto, MD, joined Geneva General Hospital in Clifton Springs, N.Y.
The New York City-based Columbia Neurosurgery team has added Taemin Oh, MD.
November
Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Surgery Center added Deven Khosla, MD; Daniel Nagasawa, MD; Edward Nomoto, MD; Steven Girdler, MD, and Brandon Hirsch, MD.
December
Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys added George Wahba, MD.
Wajeeh Bakhsh, MD, joined Franciscan Physician Network in Michigan City, Ind.
Thibodaux (La.) Regional Health System added orthopedic spine surgeon Russ Parks, MD.
Neurosurgeon John Eickman, MD, has joined Sanford Health Grand Forks (N.D.).