Here are 15 spine surgeons and neurosurgeons with recent honors or promotions in the field.
Cheerag D. Upadhyaya, MD, was named the director of the spine program at Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute in Kansas City, Mo.
Croatian spine surgeon Marinko Rade, MD, received the 2014 Young Investigator Award from Spine.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientific and medical research funding work group named Robert L. Masson, MD, to the group.
Thomas C. Chen, MD, PhD, was named director of the new USC Neuroscience Center at Good Samaritan Hospital, a collaboration between Good Samaritan Hospital and USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
Zyga Technology selected Noel D. Goldthwaite, MD, to perform the first procedure for a study of the company's SImmetry Sacroiliac Joint Fusion System.
The Harvard Clinical Research Training Program recently accepted Marquette (Mich.) General Hospital neurosurgeon Richard Rovin, MD.
New York-based spine surgeon Paul M. Brisson, MD, was named to the Leading Physicians of the World publication of the International Association of HealthCare Professionals.
Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia named Kadir Erkmen, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery and director of cerebrovascular neurosurgery and the neurosurgery residency program.
Won Song, MD, a spine surgeon at Madison County Hospital in London, Ontario, performed the first surgery in the United States using the ZIP Graft pre-packaged sterile bone dowel from Aurora Spine.
Charles Prestigiacomo, MD, was also named to the Leading Physicians of the World publication.
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine named John Tew Jr., MD, the integrative medicine program's vice president of community affairs at UC Health and executive direction of community affairs at the college of medicine.
Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., named Mark J. Hornyak, MD, chief of neurosurgery.
Kirkland, Wash.-based EvergreenHealth's Jeffrey Roh, MD, performed the first posterior cervical spine stabilization procedure using DTRAX technology in the state of Washington.
Vincent Fiere, MD, performed the first spinal fusion using Medicrea's UNiD ALIF cages at the Hospital Jean Mermoz in Lyon, France.
William Montgomery, MD, a partner at Albany-based OrthoNY, was selected as chairman of the minimally invasive spine course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to teach less invasive spine surgery techniques.