Profiles

Thursday, 13 Oct 2011

Listed in Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Jeffrey Goldstein, clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, USA, has had an impressive career—his extensive achievements range from developing a unique surface morphology to helping a man with a fractured spine walk again in addition to being a first responder during 9/11. [read more]

Friday, 01 Jul 2011

A prolific inventor who has practiced medicine in different parts of the world, a keen driver of racing cars and an editor of a best-selling text-book on image-guided therapy, Kieran Murphy is a physician of many parts. He told Spinal News International how interventional neuroradiology has now became “legit” and about his three favourite inventions. [read more]

Thursday, 21 Apr 2011

Jean-Charles Le Huec, chief of the spine unit and chair of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, spoke to Spinal News International about the people who have supported his work and new projects he is involved with as incoming president of SAS–The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. [read more]

Tuesday, 25 Jan 2011

Jeffrey Wang, chairman of the Global Spine Congress 2011, speaks to Spinal News International about the profound influence his father had on his philosophy and how basic science can help unravel some of the mysterious secrets of the spine. [read more]

Monday, 01 Nov 2010

Federico Balagué, current president of Eurospine, tells Spinal News International how he became a spine specialist. [read more]

Wednesday, 29 Sep 2010

Ray Baker, president of the North American Spine Society tells Spinal News International that in this age of austerity, new treatments must be better and less costly at the same time. [read more]

Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010

Eurospine president speaks to Spinal News International about what sparked his interest in medicine, discovering potential in the field of spine research and setting up the Grammer award. [read more]

Monday, 12 Jul 2010

Thomas J Errico tells Spinal News International how a large part of his fascination for work comes from the challenges associated with sometimes completely changing the "shape" of a person. [read more]

Wednesday, 21 Apr 2010

Lawrence Lenke, the man behind the Lenke system of classification, tells Spinal News International about how fortunate he feels to be able to limit his practice exclusively to treating patients of any age with spinal deformity [read more]

Friday, 24 Apr 2009

When a young Olympic gold-winning gymnast turned to medicine to specialise in orthopaedics, she never foresaw that one day, she would help develop the world’s first total disc replacement, and forever change the standard of spine surgery. Karin Buettner-Janz, outgoing president of Spine Arthroplasty Society (SAS), told Spinal News International about her journey. [read more]