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Dr. Roland Torres’ appointment to Neurosurgery Clinical Director expands and strengthens ANMC’s patient services Anchorage, AK (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), a leading hospital for Alaska Native and American Indian people and Alaska’s only Level II Trauma Center, recently announced that Roland Torres, M.D., FAANS, FACS, has been appointed Clinical Director for the Department of Neurosurgery. In this role, the nationally recognized neurotrauma and...
Three internationally prominent surgeons to consult on neurosurgical robot commercialization WINNIPEG, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - IMRIS Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) ("IMRIS" or the "Company") today announced the establishment of the SYMBIS(TM) Surgical System Advisory Board, comprised of three internationally recognized surgeons in the fields of neurosurgery and robotics. The advisory board will provide guidance in the development, clinical study, training and commercialization...
LADERA RANCH, Calif., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Biologics announced today that they will be presenting expanded data at the American Academy of Neurosurgeons (AANS) meeting this week in New Orleans, LA showcasing a clinical study demonstrating superior lumbar fusion rates for OsteoAMP® when compared to rhBMP-2 (Infuse®, Medtronic). In a blinded, multi-center clinical and radiological study, fusion analysis showed superiority for OsteoAMP® in producing fusions when...
Lali Sekhon, MD, PhD, FACS of Sierra Neurosurgery Group and ThinkFirst of Northern Nevada received the ThinkFirst Sponsoring Physician of the Year Award at the ThinkFirst Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 24th, 2013. Reno, Nevada (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation had its annual meeting this week in New Orleans. Dr. Lali Sekhon from Sierra Neurosurgery Group and ThinkFirst of Northern Nevada was awarded the 2013 Sponsoring Physician of...
Learn more about IMRIS neurosurgical imaging products at booth #2013 WINNIPEG, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - IMRIS, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) ("IMRIS" or the "Company") today announced that it will exhibit its novel intraoperative CT solution with state-of-the-art imaging that is currently under development at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meeting, April 27-May 1, in New Orleans, LA. Attendees are invited to visit the IMRIS booth...
LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Obama said in his April 2(nd) speech "We have been a nation of dreamers and risk-takers; people who see what nobody else sees sooner than anybody else sees it. We do innovation better than anybody else -- and that makes our economy stronger. When we invest in the best ideas before anybody else does, our businesses and our workers can make the best products and deliver the best services before anybody else." Babak...
AANS/CNS: March 7th and 8th SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SI-BONE, Inc. (San Jose, California), a medical device company that is pioneering the use of a minimally invasive surgical (MIS) device to fuse the sacroiliac (SI) joint announced today it will attend and exhibit at several major society meetings over the coming months including AANS/CNS Section, AAOS, ISASS and AANS. Later this week, the company will exhibit at the AANS/CNS Section...
On February 1, 2013, Nevada Neurosurgery merged with Sierra Neurosurgery Group. Lali Sekhon MD, PhD, FACS, founder of Nevada Neurosurgery will join nine neurosurgeons at Sierra Neurosurgery Group in Reno, Nevada as a partner to formalize that group as the premier center for the management of brain and spinal conditions. Reno, Nevada (PRWEB) February 01, 2013 Nevada Neurosurgery was founded in 2010 and has served the community in Northern Nevada and California in an exemplary fashion,...
The January 2013 issue of Neurosurgical Focus is dedicated to the science of neurosurgical practice and is edited by Drs. Anthony L. Asher (Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates & Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC), Paul C. McCormick (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY), and Douglas Kondziolka (New York University, New York, NY). In this issue, eight papers tackle a new era in neurosurgical practice, in which there is a shift in health-care...
iMRI assists in determining if all of tumor is removed WINNIPEG, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - IMRIS Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) ("IMRIS" or the "Company") today announced PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China, has surpassed a major milestone of treating more than 1,000 neurosurgery patients using a VISIUS(®) Surgical Theatre. PLA General Hospital was the first hospital in China to install a VISIUS Surgical Theatre featuring a ceiling mounted, high-field intraoperative MR...
