Roger Hartl, MD, is a professor of neurological surgery and director of spine surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is also director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care.
Daniel Penello, MD, successfully implanted a custom 3D-printed finger bone in an iron worker, Robert Smith, who was facing amputation after a heavy steel beam crushed his finger.
Kristopher Kimmell, MD, is a neurosurgeon in Rochester, N.Y., with a practice focused on minimally invasive spine surgery, traumatic brain injury, brain tumors and other spinal procedures.
Fabien Bitan, MD, a spine surgery chief at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, successfully performed an M6 artificial cervical disc replacement surgery on a 29-year-old woman.
Gregory Lekovic, MD, is the medical director of the spine surgery program at California Hospital and Medical Center as well as a surgeon with House Clinic in Los Angeles.
Mark Bilsky, MD, is the William E. Snee Endowed Chair and vice chairman of clinical affairs for neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Orthopedic spine surgeon Stephen Hochschuler, MD, is co-founder of Texas Back Institute in Plano and chairman of the Texas Back Institute Holdings Corporation. Dr. Hochschuler stopped operating two years ago but is still very much involved in the spine field.
Christopher Kager, MD, is a neurosurgeon with Lancaster (Pa.) NeuroScience & Spine Associates and chief, division of neurosurgery at Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital of Lancaster General Health Physicians NeuroScience & Spine Associates.
Jonathan Carmouche, MD, is section chief of scoliosis and pediatric orthopedics at Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic and director of the Musculoskeletal Education and Research Center at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Christine Hammer, MD, will join Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan Health when she completes her spine fellowship at Atlanta-based Emory University School of Medicine this month.