Here are 35 spine and neurosurgeons who joined new practices or medical centers in July, August and September of 2018.
To add a surgeon to this list, contact Laura Dyrda at ldyrda@beckershealthcare.com.
July
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care welcomed Demetrius Lopes, MD, to the Advocate Brain & Spine Institute.
Roland Torres, MD, joined the University of Miami Health System.
Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital welcomed Timothy Miller Jr., MD, to its Marcus Neuroscience Institute.
Spine surgeons Timothy Peppers, MD, and Jamieson Glenn, MD, joined the orthopedic surgery division at Scripps Clinic in San Diego.
Orthopaedic Associates of Southern Delaware in Lewes welcomed spine surgeon Abimbola Afolabi, MD.
Drew Brown, MD, joined the Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla.
Boulder, Colo.-based BoulderCentre for Orthopedics welcomed Benjamin Bjerke, MD.
Andrew Cappuccino, MD, joined Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Memorial Medical Center.
August
Gene A. Falkowski Jr., DO, joined Anchorage (Alaska) Fracture & Orthopedic Clinic.
Zachary Lovato, DO, joined El Paso (Texas) Specialty Hospital.
The University of Louisville (Ky.) welcomed Norberto Andaluz, MD, Dale Ding, MD, and Emily Payne Sieg, MD, to its neurosurgery department.
Charles Gordon Jr., MD, joined the team of orthopedic specialists at Baldwin Bone & Joint in Daphne, Ala.
Jahangir (John) Asghar, MD, joined the Cantor Spine Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Alex Mohit, MD, PhD, joined Puyallup, Wash.-based NeoSpine.
Cincinnati-based The Jewish Hospital welcomed neurosurgeon Yair Gozal, MD, PhD, to its brain tumor cancer team.
Marie Roguski, MD, joined MelroseWakefield Hospital in Melrose, Mass.
Lowville, N.Y.-based Lewis County General Hospital welcomed Nicholas Qandah, DO.
Bangor-based Eastern Maine Medical Center Neurosurgery and Spine Specialists welcomed neurosurgeon Rudy Marciano, DO.
Nashville-based Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance welcomed Abiola Atanda, MD, to its Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based location.
Plantation, Fla.-based Spine & Orthopedic Center added Anup Gangavalli, MD, to its team.
September
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine's neurosurgery department Chairman Joseph Cheng, MD, recruited:
• Charles Prestigiacomo, MD
• Nicholas Marko, MD
• Juan Torres-Reveron, MD, PhD
• Jonathan Forbes, MD
• Rani Nasser, MD
• Matthew Garrett, MD, PhD
Howard Yeon, MD, joined Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute's new Montvale, N.J., location.
Neurosurgeon G. Logan Douds, MD, now offers spinal surgery services at Henderson, Nev.-based Coronado Surgical Recovery Suites.
Brian Gengler, MD, joined Precision Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Irving, Texas.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center welcomed Gregory Weiner, MD.
New York City-based Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center welcomed Francis A. Pflum, MD, and Sunil Kukreja, MD.
Jared D. Ament, MD, became the director of spine neurosurgery and healthcare economic outcomes research at Sierra Neuroscience Institute in Los Angeles.